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MATERIA MEDICA. 



W) H. BURT, M.D., 

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TO 



HENRY N. GUERNSEY, M.D., 

PROFESSOR OP OBSTETRICS AND DISEASES OP WOMEN AND CHILDREN, 



HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA, 

The originator of the Characteristic or " Key-note System " 
for the choice of remedies in disease, brought out in your 
u Treatise on Obstetrics," the most valuable work ever written 
on the science of medicine. 

In consideration of the great benefit I have derived from 

your labors, I would most respectfully dedicate to you this, my 

humble effort, with gratitude. 

The Author. 



PREFACE. 



The following work is neither a u Text-book," nor an 
u Epitome ;" much less is it offered as a substitute for 
the Materia Medica. 

But from all the sources within my reach, including 
pretty much the entire range of our English and Amer- 
ican Homoeopathic literature, I have endeavored to col- 
lect those symptoms, which, whether originally patho- 
genetic, or clinical only, have come to be regarded as 
;; Characteristics," and as " Key-notes," by reason of 
their own prominence, or from the frequency of their 
mention by the best authorities. 

Very many of the symptoms comprised within this 
book, have been expressly set forth as " Key-notes," 
and " Characteristics," by Drs. Guernsey, Hering, and 
numerous others. To all of whom due credit has been 
given in every instance. These symptoms, thus ap- 
proved, as having been tried and verified, ex usu in 
morbis, I have, with great labor, collected and arranged, 
in such a manner as to render them at the same time 
more accessible to the junior members of the profes- 
sion, and more convenient for their use. 

And in order the better to facilitate the study of 

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VI PREFACE. 

the remedies which these symptoms represent, I have 
adopted a method of grouping, arranging by them- 
selves those remedies which produce similar physio- 
pathological and pathogenetic symptoms. In forming 
such groups, I have availed myself of the labors of Dr. 
Hale and Dr. Hughes. The method here pursued, dif- 
fers from that of Teste, who based his groups upon the 
pathogenesis alone. His plan appears to me to be both 
unscientific and insufficient j since, in order bo apply 
our remedies successfully, we must understand their 
pathological relations, as irell aa their pathogenetic 
symptoms. 

It is for this reason thai I have also attempted, In a 
few words, to point out the several organs and tissues 
for which each particular remedy has a special af- 
finity; and also the nervous spheres through which it 
primarily acts upon the system. 

In the next place is stated the particular kind of 
pathological influence which the remedy exerts upon 
each tissue and important orgaHi 

Then follow what 1 have allowed myself to term the 
Grand Characteristics of the remedy. 

And here it is proper that I should refer to the 
sources from which these latter are derived, although 
it would seem superfluous to give a full catalogue of 
the numerous works Consulted; and the more espe- 
cially, since, wherever practicable, an authority has 
been subjoined to each individual "Characteristic," or 
11 Key-note." And while! I have endeavored to render 
this work representative of the practical experience of 



PREFACE. Vll 

the whole profession, rather than that of a single man, 
I cannot here refrain from making especial mention of 
Professor H.X. Guernsey's work on Obstetrics. Upon 
this, as will appear, I have depended more for Charac- 
teristics, than upon any other. 

The initial G. stands, therefore, for Prof. Guernsey; 
H., for Prof. Hering; and F., for Prof. Frost. The 
names of other authorities being given in full. The 
s}^mptoms credited to Prof. J. S. Douglas, were from 
my notes of his lectures. 

In the absence of any fixed and absolute rule for group- 
ing, I have been obliged to depend upon my own judg- 
ment; and whether from nvy own inability, or the nat- 
ural difficulties of the undertaking, it is no doubt as 
true that others may prefer a different classification, as 
that I found it impossible to confine certain remedies 
exclusively to any particular groups. 

And from being alone, and thus obliged to depend 
upon my own judgment only, in regard to what symp- 
toms should be selected as characteristic, and what re- 
jected, it also follows, most undoubtedly, that many 
persons will look in vain in these pages, for symptoms 
which they know to be characteristic, from having suc- 
cessfully applied them for years in their practice. This 
being the first attempt to collect together the charac- 
teristic symptoms, it must be regarded onty as a be- 
ginning, and, therefore, necessarily imperfect. 

It is believed that the present work will be found of 
especial use to the profession, from its presenting the 
most important symptoms and indications of some new 



Vlll PREFACE. 

and valuable remedies, many of them contained in Dr. 
Hale's Materia Medica of the Xew Remedies; not to 
mention my own humble contributions of Pol yporus and 
Ustilago madis: the latter of which Dr. J. B. Wood- 
reports (Hahnemannian Monthly, Apr., 1869), "hav- 
ing used with good success in cases of uterine hemor- 
rhage," &c. In other respects, 1 have made use of my 
own experience in writing and compiling this work, 
which, I trust, maj r richly repay my labor, by proving 
itself acceptable and useful to the profession. 



A few inaccuracies which have crept into the text, 
are here noted; since, while not in themselves of much 
importance, they mar the sense. 

In page 165, the paragraph (beginning Pry, husky, 
scaly skin;) should be understood as a portion of the 
next one, or symptom quoted from 1). II. Gardiner; 
the quotation-marks were unfortunately omitted. 

A similar omission of quotation-marks occurs also 
on page 175, where the whole of the paragraph on Ly 
copodiumin Typhoid fever, should have been credited 
to Prof. Frost. 

In page 297, in the sixth line from the top, in>' 
of hydropho&m, read hydrophoftt'num. 

In the list of Group V, page 229, insert Arum tri.; . 
and omit " Potassium, in its various compounds," which 
latter had their place in Group IV. 



LIST OF GROUPS. 



GROUP I. 



Aconitum napellus, 
Veratrum viride, 
Cactus grandiflorus, 
Gelseniinum semp. , 
Bryonia alba, 
Rhus tox., 
Rhus rad., 
Rhus vernix, 
Digitalis, 



Cimicifuga, 
Tartar emetic, | 
Antimo. tart, j 
Veratrum alb., 
Arnica montana, 
Colchicum, 
Senega, 
Baptisia, 
Chelidonium. 



GROUP II. 



Belladonna, 

Hyoscyanius, 

Stramonium, 

Opium, 

Alcohol, 

Chloroform, 

Ether, 

Glonoine, 

Agaricus, 

Cicuta vir., 

Gymnocladus, 



Camphora, 

Zizia aurea, 

Cuprum, 

Cannabis ind., 

CofFea, 

Tabacum, 

Solanum nig. , 

Aethusa, 

Lachnantes, 

Ailanthus. 



Xux vomica, 
Strychnine, 
Ignatia, 
Cocculus, 



GROUP 



III. 

Conium, 
Curare, 
Angustura, 
./Esculus hip. 



LIST OF GROUPS. 



GROUP IV. 



Sulphur, 
Calcarea carb., 
Lycopodium, 
Silicea, 
Hepar sulph., 
Phosphorus, 
Cistus can.. 
Sarsaparilla, 
Sanguinaria, 
Kali carb., 
Kali hyd., 
Causticum, 
Bumex crispus, 



Carbo veg. , 
Carbo an. , 
Alumina, 
Stannum, 
Juglans cinerea, 
Graphitt 
Thuja, 
Magnesia, 

Dulcamara, 

Corallia rub., 

Psorin, 

Kali biehromicum, 

Electricity, 



GROUP V. 



Mercurius, and its va- 
rious preparations. 

Iodine, and its com- 
pounds, 

Chlorine, and its com- 
pounds, 

Bromine, and its com- 
pounds, 

Arum triphyllum, 

Ammonium, 

Podophyllum, 

Iris versicolor, 



Phytolacca, 
Arsenicum alb., 
Sepsin, 

Lcptandria, 

StiUingia, 

A1(M 

Aigentum, 

Spongia, 
Baryta carb., 
Croton tig., 
Auruni. 



GROUP VI. 



Ipecacuanha, 
Antimonium crud., 
Tartar emetic, 
Bismuth, 



Lobelia, 
Robinia, 
Euphorbia. 



LIST OF GROUPS. 



XI 



Ferrum met. 

Manganese, 

Zincum, 



Lachesis, 
Crotalus, 
Hy drophobinum , 



GROUP VII. 

Helonias dioica, 
Hypophosphites. 

GROUP VIII. 

Xaja tripujians, 
Theridion curass. 



Tarantula. 



GROUP IX. 



Cantharides, 
Apis mel., 
Chimaphila, 
Terebinth., 
Copaiva, 
Cubebs, 
Hydrastis, 
Kali chloricum, 
Borax, 

Cannabis sat., 
Erigeron, 
Apocynum can., 



Colocynth, 

Dioscorea, 

Collinsonia, 

Plumbum, 

Jalapa, 



GROUP 



Asparagus, 

Urtica urens, 

Petroleum, 

Erechthites, 

Mitchella, 

Euphrasia, 

Helleborus, 

Sambucus, 

Uranium, 

Eupatorium purpur. , 

Sticta, 

Zingiber. 

X. 

Scammonium, 
Mezereum, 
Gummi guttse, 
Elaterium, 
Rheum. 



GROUP XI. 



Asafoetida, 
Valeriana, 
Valerianate of Zinc, 
Scutellaria, 
Ambra grisea, 
Xux moschata, 
Platina, 



Moschus, 

Chamomilla, 

Castoreum, 

Cypripedium, 

Agnus castus, 

Mephitis. 



Xll 



LIST OF GROUPS. 





GROUP XII. 


Cina, 




Cucurbita pepo semen. 


Santonine, 




Teucrium, 


Spigelia, 




Artemisia, 


Filix mas, 




Staphysa^ria. 


Kousso, • 








GROUP XIII. 


China, 




Gelseminum. 


Quinia, 




Chanchalagua, 


Ostrya vir., 




Capsicum, 


Polypori, 




Salix alba. 


Eupatorium perf 


} 


Corona florida, 


Natrum mur., 




Ptelea, 


Cedron, 
Arsenicum, 




Xux v.. 
Carbo v.. 


Ipecacuanha, 




Sulphur. 




GROUI 


1 XIV. 


Secale cornutum, 




( rTOCUS, 


Ustilago madis, 




Thlaspi, 


Pulsatilla, 




8eneeio aureus. 


Sepia, 




Cinnamonum, 


Sabina, 




Millefolium. 


Kreosote, 




( aulopbvllum, 


Hamamelis, 




Tanaretum, 


Trillium, 




Gossypium. 


Cyclamen, 








grou: 


P XV. 


Acidum sulphuricum, 


Acidum hydrocyanicuni. 


Acidum nitricurn 


h 


Acidum rluoricum, 


Acidum phosphoricum, 


Acidum benzotcum, 


Acidum muriaticum, 


Acidum oxalicum. 



CHARACTERISTIC 



MATERIA MEDICA. 



GROUP I. 



Aconitum napellus, 
Veratrum viride, 
Cactus grandiflorus, 
Gelseminum senip., 
Bryonia alba, 
Rhus tox., 
Ehus rad., 
Ehus vernix, 
Digitalis, 



Ciraicifuga, 
Tartar emetic, 
Veratrum alb., 
Arnica montana, 
Colchicum, 
Senega, 
Baptisia, 
Chelidonium. 



Aconitum xapellus, and its analogous remedies, 
are our true antiphlogistics. All produce physio- 
pathological states, which, if not identical, are very 
similar ; all reduce the activity of the circulation, 
quiet nervous excitement and excessive action of 
the heart and arteries, and prevent congestion and 
inflammation. 

Primarily, they all produce paraljsis of sensa- 
tion ; voluntary and involuntary motion ; venous 
congestion of the brain and its membranes ; the 
lungs, heart, and all the abdominal viscera. The 
blood becomes dark and coagulated, the heart loses 

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14 ACONITUM NAPELLUS. 

its contractility, and serous exudations, asphyxia, 
and death result. 

Secondarily, they produce arterial excitement, 
congestion, inflammation, spasms, tremors, general 
irritation, &c. 

ACONITUM NAPELLUS. 

Woi/aba 

Aconite especially affectfl that portion of the 
ganglionic nervoue m which presides over the 

action of the heart and arteries ; the posterior 

portion of the spinal cord, that which presides 
over sensation; the serous membranes, muscles, 

joints, and digestive organs. 

The great sympathetic or ganglionic system of 

nerves, is deeply invaded by the poisonous princi- 
ple of Aconite; the heart and arterial capillary 

vessels are so paralyzed as to produce violent con- 
gestion and inflammation in any and every organ 
and tissue in the body that contains capillaries ; 

the parts become swollen, red, hot, and painful, 
with all the constitutional symptoms of phlegmon- 
ous inflammation ; such as high fever, hard, hound- 
ing pulse, violent thirst, great anxiety, restless- 
ness, &c. 

Thus we find that Aconite expends its poisonous 
principles especially upon those delicate arterial 
capillary vessels, and so paralyzes their action as 
to produce congestion and inflammation. 

Meyer says: "Aconite's sphere of action is 
manifested principally in the ganglionic system, 
and exercises here its special influence upon the 



ACONITUM NAPELLUS. 15 

nerves of the capillary vessels, exciting fevers, con- 
gestions, and inflammations." 

Grusselich says : " Its operation on the arterial 
system is unmistakable ; its reaction upon the 
nerves and lymphatic vessels easily substantiated 
from physiological principles." 

Diez says: " Aconite corresponds to the first 
stage of inflammation ; as such, and apart from its 
various modifications, it occupies the foremost rank 
among all the medical plants that have been proved 
up to the present time." 

Cerebrospinal System, or nervous system of ani- 
mal life. — This includes the brain, spinal cord, 
with the nerves connected with them, and the 
ganglia seated upon these nerves. 

First, the Brain. The arterial capillary vessels 
of the brain are so paralyzed as to produce violent 
cerebral congestion, as shown b}^ the swollen face, 
blue lips, violent pain in the head, stupor, partial 
insensibility, trembling of the head, mania; at 
times singing and laughing, and then weeping and 
moaning ; filled with hope or great despair ; pain 
in the head, as if it was filled with hot water or 
encircled with a hot iron ; excessive anxiety ; rest- 
lessness ; dread of death ; whizzing in the ears ; loss 
of sight ; vertigo, with partial loss of conscious- 
ness ; loss of memory, &c. 

Nerves of Motion. — Aconite sometimes produces 
convulsions, but more generally paralysis of the 
muscular system. It does not irritate the motor 
nerves of animal life directly, like Xux vomica. 

Nerves of Sensation. — These are more powerfully 



16 AC0N1TUM NAPELLUS. 

acted upon by Aconite, as shown by the numbn< 
tingling, prickling, crawling, and creeping 
tions throughout the body. " Th sation arises 

from its depressing action upon those ganglionic 
or vaso-motor nerves which follow the bloodvessels 
to their most minute ramifications, and preside 
over their functions." This congestion, by press- 
ing on the sentient nerves, arrests the nervous cir- 
culationand produces a state similar to that when 
a limb is said to go to sleep ; consequently the neu- 
ralgia Aconite is homoeopathie too. i> secondary, 
from pressure of the congested V( irrounding 

the nerve. When the nerve alone is involved we 
must look to other remedies that directly all' 
the nerves. 

31uscular System. — Aconite especially affects the 
muscular system, also the tendons and the fibr 
tissues of the joints ; producingin them - ion 

and inflammation of a rheumatic character. For 
inflammatory rheumatism of the joints and til ► r - 
tissue, in any part of the body, no known remedy 
is equal to Aconite. If the fibrous tissue is the 
seat of the disease, the pains are tearing and ach- 
ing. If it is in the serous membranes, the pains 
are sticking, or sore and Btinging. If in the mucous 
membrane, the pains are burning. If in the mus- 
cles, the pain from sudden movement is extremely 
great. 

Serous Membranes. — The most accurate and I 
authenticated cases of poisoning by Aconite estab- 
lish the fact that it affects especially the capillaii 
and this through a direct impression upon the r 



ACONITUM NAPELLUS. 17 

inae of ganglionic and vaso-motor nerves supplied 
to them. This power to influence the whole or any 
portion of the capillary system, renders it a poly- 
chrest far excellence. Its field of operation is the 
ganglionic nervous system, which it aftects prima- 
rily. This primarj- impression is communicated 
to the vaso-motor filaments which regulate the 
circulation in all the vessels. The changes which 
occur in the circulation of a tissue brought under 
its (Aconite's) influence are believed to be very sim- 
ilar to those indicated by Dr. Bennet as peculiar 
to the congestive process. 

Dr. Prevost found that if Aconite, much diluted 
by water, was brought in contact w r ith the w^eb of 
a frog's foot, contraction and afterwards dilatation 
of the capillary vessels ensued. 

The congestive stage of inflammation in serous 
membranes most frequently commences w r ith a 
chill, followed by dry heat, &c. Inflammation in 
serous membranes does not generally go on to ul- 
ceration, sloughing and gangrene ; but the fluid 
that is thrown out in the second stage takes on 
what is termed " adhesive inflammation," the fluid 
eftused undergoes such an organizing process as to 
glue the opposing surfaces of the serous membranes 
together. As soon as the second stage, that of ef- 
fusion, takes place in serous membranes, the useful- 
ness of Aconite ceases, and Bryonia or some other 
remedy must be chosen, but up to the stage of ef- 
fusion, Aconite is the remedy par excellence. 

Most examples of serous inflammation are be- 
lieved to be more or less rheumatic in character. 
This again shows us why Aconite is so useful in ser- 

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18 ACONITUM NAPELLUS. 

ous inflammation, for the inflammation caused by 
Aconite is rheumatic in character. 

Mucous Membranes. — Mucous membranes are 
highly vascular, and the millions of arterial capil- 
lary vessels found in them become the centre for 
the action of Aconite ; acute congestion and inflam- 
mation in this tissue are at once produced under 
its influence. 

Lymphatic System. — Lymphatics have 1 1 
coats. 1. Internal epithelial and elastic fibre; 2. 
Middle, smooth, muscular, and tine elastic fibres; 
3. External, areolo-fil irons, areolar tissue, inter- 
mixed with smooth muscular fibre. Arteries are 
distributed to their outer and middle and 

in these two coats, Aconite produces congestion 
and inflammation. 

Grand Characteristics. 

The grand sphere for Aconite is found in all 
diseases of a congestive, inflammatory, or 
rheumatic character, with full bounding pulse, 
much heat, dry, burning skin, agonized tossing 
about, violent thirst, red face, shortness of 
breath, and great nervous excitability. 

" Great fear and anxiety of mind, with great 
nervous excitability." — G. 

" He is afraid to go out, to go where there is 
any excitement or many people, or to cross a 
street. His life, in fact, is rendered miserable 
by this all-pervading fearfulness. The conn- 



ACONITUM NAPELLUS. 19 

tenance exhibits strong and unmistakable ex- 
pression of fear." — G. 

"Fear of death — predicts the day he will 
die."— G. 

"If the patient sits up in bed, he imme- 
diately falls over in consequence of vertigo, 
and he is afraid to rise again, lest the same 
trouble should recur." — G. 

"Extreme congestion and inflammation of 
the parts. She dreads too much activity about 
her."— G. 

" She is alarmed, and sure she will die, al- 
though there is no occasion for alarm." — G. 

"Chill and synochal fever, from dry cold 
air. Everything except water has a bitter 
taste."— G. 

" Sensation as if the hairs of the head were 
standing on end ; the scalp is sensitive to the 
touch."— G. 

" The child has a dry, hot skin, sleepless, rest- 
less, cries much, bites its fist, and has a green, 
watery diarrhoea." — G. 

"Child has much pain; feverish, constant 
restlessness, and biting its hands." — G. 

Agony; has to sit straight up ; can hardly 
breathe; pulse thread-like; very sad. 

Active hemorrhages, with fear of death, and 
great nervous excitability. 

" Inflammation ; the parts burn as from hot 
coals." 



20 ACONITUM NAPELLUS. 

" Excessive sensibility to the least touch. " 

"She complains much of her head, with an- 
guish and great fear of death." — G. 

Vertigo, when rising from a recumbent posi- 
tion, with fainting and pale face. 

"So giddy cannot sit up in bed." — G. 

Headache, as if everything would press out 
of the forehead, with vertigo on rising. 

Burning sensation, extending from the stom- 
ach all the way to the mouth, and along the 
dorsum of the tongue, with tingling in the lips. 
tongue, fingers, and spine. Everything tastes 
bitter except water; has great thirst for cold 
water. 

Bitter, bilious vomiting, with anguish and 
cold perspiration. 

"Sharp, shooting pains in the whole abdo- 
men, which is very tender to the touch." — G. 

"Abdomen swollen after scarlet fever/ 1 — 
Hempel. 

"Green, watery diarrhoea, like chopped spin- 
ach."— G. 

Watery, dark-colored stools. 

"Bilious diarrhoea of infants, with colic, 
which no position or circumstance relieves." 
— G. 

Dysentery, with high synochal fever; great 
fear and restlessness. 

Inflammation of the bowels; high synochal 
fever; great fear and restlessness. 



ACONITUM NAPELLUS. 21 

" Cutting, lancinating, burning and tearing 
pains in the abdomen, with anguish and fear." 
— G. 

"Retention of urine from cold, particularly 
in children, with much crying and restlessness.'' 
— G. 

"Aconite often restores the menses of pleth- 
oric women, after their suppression from any 
cause." — G. 

Suppression of the menses after a fright. 

"Catamenia too profuse." — Lippe. 

"If a pregnant woman has fright, and the 
fear remains, and she cannot seem to get over 
it, she must take Aconite at once." — G. 

"Suppression of the lochia, or too scanty 
discharge, soon after confinement, with dis- 
tress in the abdomen, chest and head." — G. 

" Puerperal peritonitis." — Lippe. 

Breasts hard and knotted, with hot dry skin ; 
much thirst and fear. 

"The mammae are congested, burning hot; 
hard, and distended, with little or no milk." 
— G. 

" Os uteri, dry, tender, and undilatable; with 
distress, moaning and restlessness during every 
pain."_G. 

"Cannot bear the pain, nor bear to be 
touched or uncovered." — G. 

" When the patient, during pregnancy, is 



22 ACONITUM NAPELLUS. 

distressed between twelve and three, A. M., 
having to get up to urinate. Has no affection 
for any one."— J. C. M. 

Great fear during pregnancy that the child 
will be deformed, or that she never can give it 
birth. 

" Desire to urinate accompanied with great 
fear, anxiety and distress." — G. 

Bright red and hot urine. 

" Retention of urine with stitches in the kid- 
neys."— G. 

"Difficult and scanty emissions of urine." 
— G. 

"First stages of croup, with cough and loud 
breathing during expiration, but not during in- 
spiration; every expiration ends with a hoarse 
hacking cough/' — G. 

"The child has much oppression of the chest ; 
anxiety ; can scarcely cough, the Buffering is 
so intense." — G. 

" Child grasps at the throat with every cough- 
ing fit;'— G. 

"Croupy cough, awaking in first Bleep, par- 
ticularly with children, after dry cold west 
winds."— G. 

"After violent chill, dry heat, with difficult 
breathing, and lancinating pain through the 
chest."— G. 

"Blood spitting; the blood comes up with 



VERATRUM VIRIDE. 23 

an easy hawking, hemming, or some coughing, 
either after mental excitement, after drinking 
wine, or exposure to dry cold air/' — C. Hering. 

" Stitches in the chest, hindering respiration ; 
cannot breathe freely in consequence of a sen- 
sation, as if the lungs would not expand." — G. 

" Stinging pains in internal organs." — Lippe. 

" Burning in internal organs." — Lippe. 

"Numbness in left arm ; can scarcely move 
the hand." — C. Hering. 

At night the pains are insupportable, with 
fear, anxiety, and great restlessness. 

Adapted to people of full, plethoric habit, 
especially young girls, of sanguine tempera- 
ment and sedentary life; and to acute diseases 
brought on by dry, cold west winds. 

VERATRUM VIRIDE. 

Green Hellebore. 

Acts especially upon the portion of the sympa- 
thetic nervous system which presides over the ac- 
tion of the heart and arteries, the base of the brain, 
cervical portion of the spinal cord, and pneumo- 
gastric nerve. 

The action of Veratrum viride upon the great 
sympathetic differs widely from that of Aconite; 
the latter produces congestion and inflammation 
in any and every organ and tissue in the body, 
while Veratrum viride produces congestion and in- 
flammation only in the thoracic viscera, base of 



24 VERATRUM VIRIDE. 

the brain, upper portion of the spina] cord, and 
stomach. Its action on the organic nervous - 
tern much resembles that of cholera, but it does 
not so profoundly affect the functional power 
the mucous epithelial glands of the intestinal canal. 
Xo remedy in the materia medica will bo quickly 
and surely produce congestion and inflammation 
of the lungs as the Veratrum viride. 

Nerves of Motion. — The sedative action of V 
trum viride upon these aervee is most profound. 
Sometimes it irritates them i produce con- 

vulsions, but generally the muscular system is 
completely paralyzed, so that the patient or ani- 
mal cannot stand or walk, and the breathing Dearly 
ceases. We have much to learo yet about 
tioD od the cerebrospinal Bystem. 

X< rvesof >S< nsation* — It produces pain and hyper- 
esthesia. 

Upon the pneumogastric nerve it has a most 
powerful effect, irritating the filaments of that por- 
tion of the nerve which is distributed to the stom- 
ach and Lungs, so as to produce violent nausea and 
vomiting, and asthmatic breathing. The secre- 
tions of the stomach and Lunge fly in- 
creased. 

Grand Characteristic** 

In all diseases where Veratrum will be found 
indicated, there will be more or less gastric 
irritability, congestion and inflammation of 
the lungs, with nausea and vomiting and high 



CACTUS GRANDIFLORUS. 25 

fever, nausea and frequent vomiting of glairy 
mucus, bile, and blood, with hiccough and a 
sensation as though a ball was rising in the 
oesophagus. 

Constant burning distress in the cardiac re- 
gion, with high fever. 

Frontal headache, with nausea, vomiting, 
and fever. 

Complete loss of vision and hearing when 
rising from a recumbent position, accompanied 
with hiccough, nausea, vomiting, dilated pu- 
pils, green circles around the eyes. 

Tongue feels as though it had been scalded, 
with intense burning in the fauces. 

Cold sweat on the face, hands, and feet. 

Skin shrivelled up. 

Spasms of an opisthotonus character with 
Hippocratic face. 

Chorea. 

Neuralgia. 

Especially adapted to gastric, catarrhal, and 
pulmonary diseases and chorea. 

CACTUS GRANDIFLORUS. 

Night-Blooming Cereus. 

Acts especially upon the heart and arteries, also 
the lungs. The results of its action on the system 
resemble rheumatism. 



26 GELSEMINUM SEMPERVIRENS. 

Grand Character is1 ies. 

In diseases that call for the use of Cactus, 
there will always be found more or less de- 
rangement of the heart. The patient will be 
greatly reduced in flesh, with great nervous 
excitability. 

" Feeling as though an iron band was around 
the heart, preventing its normal motion." 

Palpitation of the heart in debilitated pa- 
tients; worse when lying on the left side; when 
walking, and at night, with great melancholy. 

u Chronic bronchitis, with profuse rattling 
of mucus in the lung 

Difficulty of breathing. 

Arterial pulsation in the scrobiculus. 

Nervous consumption. 

Adapted to hypertrophy of the heart; pal- 
pitation of the heart; rheumatism of the heart; 
acute and chronic carditis and rheumatism. 

And also to acute inflammation of the dia- 
phragm. — F. 

GELSEMINUM SEMPERVIRENS. 
Yellow J< 8t 

This remedy depresses and paralyzes the action 

of the sympathetic and cerebro-spinal nervous sys- 
tem in a remarkable maimer. "The most promi- 
nent of all the effects of Gelseminum is to induce 
a profound and intense prostration of the whole 



GELSEMINUM SEMPERVIRENS. 27 

muscular system. Its effects are first manifested 
on the voluntary muscles and then on the involun- 
tary. This action is caused by impairing the vi- 
tality of those nerves which supply it with life." 
— Hale. 

Nerves of Sensation. — Its action on these nerves 
is not direct ; but the excess of sensitiveness is 
probably caused by its action on the organic nerves, 
or by the " cramp-like contractions of muscles " 
which are presided over by the motor nerves, which 
it so powerfully influences. 

Vascular System. — The congestion produced by 
Gelseminum differs from that of Aconite or Vera- 
trum viride. The congestions caused by the two 
latter tend to inflammation, but the congestion of 
Gelseminum much resembles that of malarious af- 
fections, which go on to inflammation. The action 
of the heart is at first greatly paralyzed ; but af- 
terwards it becomes quick and full. 

Grand Characteristics. 

Especially adapted to nervous, excitable, 
hysterical females. Sensitive people and little 
children ; to male and female onanists. 

Hysteria, with spasms ; palpitation of the 
heart and great nervous excitability. 

Nocturnal emissions and sexual dreams, fol- 
lowed the next day by great languor and irri- 
tability of mind. 

Involuntary emissions of semen, with or 
without erections, with much flaccidity and 



28 GELSEMINUM SEMPERVIREN>. 

coldness of the genital organs, accompanied 
with great languor and depression of spirits. 

"A feeling as though the heart would stop 
beating in a moment, if she did not walk in- 
cessantly, with a feeling of impending death/' 
— Hale. 

Irritative, remittent, and intermittent fevers 
in very sensitive people and children, with ex- 
cessive irritability and nervous erethism, with 
no gastric, hepatic, or visceral complications. 

Confusion of the mind. 

Great depression of spirits in onanists, ac- 
companied with excessive Languor. 

Intense congestion of the brain in children 
during dentition. 

Nervous headache; the pain commences in 
the cervical portion of the spinal cord, and then 
spreads over the whole head. (See Sanguin- 
aria.) 

Great heaviness of the eyelids ; it is impossi- 
ble to keep them open. 

Dilatation of the pupils, with blindness and 
vertigo. 

Dimness of vision. 

Diplopia. 

Amaurosis from masturbation. 

Paralysis of the sphincter muscles of the 
bladder. 

Rigid os uteri in labor, in nervous or hys- 
terical females. 



BRYONIA ALBA. 29 

Nervous chills with shivering and chattering 
of the teeth ; depending upon an irritated con- 
dition of the nerves of motion in very sensitive, 
hysterical subjects ; these chills may appear 
from fear or fright in healthy subjects ; they 
often attend relaxation of the os uteri in labor. 

"Fever without thirst; wants to lie still and 
rest ; particularly with inflamed tonsils begin- 
ning on the right side." — J. B. Bell. 

" Fever, with shooting pressive pains through 
the temples and nasal sinuses, with brilliancy 
of eyes and loquacity." — C. H. W. 

" Cannot get to sleep on going to bed at 
night, on account of thinking, which she can- 
not control ; in sensitive people." — J. C. M. 

Intense passive congestion of both veins and 
arteries, in which irritation of the congested 
organ sets in. 

Congestive stage of pneumonia. 

Feeling of lightness in the body from spinal 
exhaustion, in onanists. 

Paralytic condition of the lumbar and sacral 
muscles in onanists. 

Congestive facial neuralgia; the pains are 
grumbling or shooting ; worse on pressure. 

BRYONIA ALBA. 

White Bryonia. 
Tso remedy affects the serous membranes more 

3* 



30 BRYONIA ALBA. 

powerfully than Bryonia. Its greatest field of 
action is upon parenchymatous organs, inclosed 
in serous membranes ; but it has the greatest in- 
fluence over the pleura and lungs: the next organ 
most influenced is the brain ; then the synovial 
membranes and muscular fibre. Over the liver it 
has a powerful influence; and, lastly, the kidneys 
and mucous membrane of the large intestines. 

Noack and Trinkfl say: "Bryonia excites both 
the peripheral nerves and capillary vessels, thra 
giving rise to symptoms intermediate between in- 
flammation and nervous irritation. Bryonia has 
Btriking relations with the secretory organs of bile 

and with the uterus, likewise with the serous mem- 
branes, and is especially suitable in hyperemia <»t' 
the latter. Bryonia is especially indicated in affec- 
tions where reabsorption is required: in typhoid in- 
filtrations, serous effusions, and Bangui] exu- 
dations. It is especially efficacious in affections 
where the catarrhal, pituitOUS, and rheumatic char- 
acter prevails, or when Bynochal symptoms \ 
into the nervous Btag< 

Hempel says: k - Bryonia is particularly adapted 
to inflammations of a torpid character, when de- 
veloping themselves from a rheumatic base; or in 
acute inflammations, which threaten to pass into 
the stage of exudation or paralysis, with a small, 
soft, or even compressible and somewhat acceler- 
ated pulse." 

"It is particularly in inflammatory affections of 
the respiratory organs, the lungs, and their envel- 
oping membrane, that Bryonia has been found emi- 
nently useful ; not, however, in the first invasion 



BRYONIA ALBA. 31 

of the disease, but after the synochal form has 
been subdued by Aconite, we shall find Bryonia 
particularly useful." — Hempel. 

Prof. R. Ludlam says: "As a rule, Bryonia is 
more serviceable in inflammations of the synovial 
capsules and the pleura, than in peritonitis or peri- 
carditis." 

In rheumatic and arthritic inflammations, no 
remedy can supersede Bryonia. " Its powerful in- 
fluence over serous and synovial membranes and 
muscular fibre, with its fever and sour sweats, 
point unmistakably to rheumatism." — Hughes. 

"Most examples of serous inflammation are be- 
lieved to be more or less rheumatic " in character, 
and this again shows us why Bryonia is so useful 
in those diseases. 



Grand Characteristics. 

Stitching, tearing pains ; greatly aggravated 
by motion ; relieved by rest ; worse at night. 

The sovereign remedy for all inflammations 
that have advanced to the stage of serous effu- 
sion. This action extends over all the serous 
membranes. 

Exceedingly irritable ; everything makes 
him angry. Headache as if it would split 
open ; greatly aggravated by motion, opening 
the eyes or stooping; relieved by pressure and 
closing the eyes. 

"Lips parched, dry, and cracked." — G. 



32 BRYONIA ALBA. 

" Constipation of hard, dry stools, as if 
burnt;'— G. 

" Frequent bleeding from the nose, when 
the menses should appear." — G. 

Sitting up in bed causes nausea and faints 
ing.— G. 

"Desire for things that cannot be had. or 
which are refused, or not wanted when of- 
fered."— G. 

. People with choleric temperament, bilious 
tendency, dark hair and complexion, with 
firm, fleshy fibre. 

Fear of the future. 

Congestive headache, as if the forehead 

would burst open, with epistaxis. 

Eyes very sore, and feel as if they would be 

pressed out of the head. 

Shooting pains in the teeth. 

Tongue coated grayish, or thickly yellowish, 
with lips dry and cracked. 

"The mouth is unusually dry with thirst/' 
— G. 

" Motion more or less constant, of the jaws, 
as if chewing something; lips dry and crack- 
ed."— G. 

" Cannot sit up from nausea and faintness." 
— G. 

"Food is thrown up immediately after eat- 
ing, with constipation, and lips dry and crack- 
ed."— G. 



BRYONIA ALBA. 33 

Everything tastes bitter. 

Nausea when rising up. 

Pressure in the pit of the stomach as if there 
was a stone in it ; goes off with much eructa- 
tion. 

Sour vomiting. 

Stomach becomes extremely sensitive to 
the touch or pressure. 

"Diseases caused by cold drinks in warm 
weather, after cold." — Hering. 

Food is vomited immediately after eating, 
with constipation, and the lips dry and 
cracked. 

Diarrhoea in the morning. 

Burning diarrhoea. The disease is worse 
in warm weather. 

" Diarrhoea worse every spell of hot weath- 
er;'— G. 

" Diarrhoea from cold drinks in hot weath- 
er."— H. 

Constipation; stools dry and hard, as if 
burnt. 

" During colic, must keep very still ; with 
stools hard and dry, as if burnt." — G. 

Stitches in the liver. 

" Tensive burning pains in the region of the 
liver, which is swollen and sore." — Hempel. 

Peritonitis, with stinging, burning pains; 
abdomen very sore to the touch, with consti- 
pation, especially if in a rheumatic subject. 



34 BRYONIA ALBA. 

Urine hot, red, and diminished in quantity. 

"Menses too early, too profuse, worse on 
motion." — G. 

" Frequent bleeding at the nose when the 
menses should appear." — G. 

"Pinching and uneasiness in the abdomen, 
as if the menses should appear." — G. 

" During the menses has tearing pains in the 
legs; worse on motion." — G. 

"Stitching pains in the ovaries on takin 
deep inspiration; can hardly hear the least 
touch on the affected parts; worse on mo- 
tion.'— G. 

u Menses too early, too profuse ; of dark red 
blood, with pain in the hack, and aching in 
the head, as if it would split open ; worse on 
motion." — G. 

"Nausea, relieved by keeping quiet : desires 

to keep still, with splitting headache." — G. 

" Her breasts have a stony hardness in them ; 
they are hot and painful, hut not very red." 
— G. 

" Lochia suppressed, with headache, as if it 
would burst open, greatly aggravated by mo- 
tion."— G. 

" Eruptions do not fully make their appear- 
ance, with much dyspnoea and quick breath- 
ing."-G. 

Shortness of breath ; a full inspiration pro- 
duces stitching pain in the chest. 



BRYONIA ALBA. 35 

" Cough worse after drinking, with respira- 
tion much oppressed." — G. 

" Dry cough, with brickdust-colored expec- 
toration ; worse on motion. 

" Pleuro-pneumonia, with stabbing pains ; 
frequent respiration ; bloody expectoration ; 
high fever ; bursting headache ; worse on mo- 
tion, and deep inspiration. 

u Inflammation of the first and second divis- 
ions of the bronchi, with an irritative, shaking, 
dry cough; heat ; pain, and soreness behind the 
i sternum ; worse daytimes and by motion." — 
Hughes. 

Articular and muscular rheumatism, greatly 
aggravated by motion ; the pains are tensive 
and tearing ; sour perspiration. 

" The child cannot bear to be moved, the least 
movement so greatly increases its suffering ; 
with dry, parched lips and constipation." — G. 

Fever, with dry, burning heat, mostly inter- 
nal, as if the blood was burning in the veins. 

" Intermittent fever ; chills begin on the lips 
and on the tips of the fingers and toes ; great 
thirst during all stages." — R. Gardner, M.D. 

Colds, with a feeling as if the body had been 
'pounded all over. 

In typhoid fevers, with the above symptoms, 
it is the best medicine in the materia medica. 



36 RHUS TOXICODENDRON. 

RHUS TOXICODENDRON. 
Poison Oak. 

Under this heading I will note the particular 
effects of Rhus tox. only. The characteristics of 
the other two, Rhus rad. and vornix, not being 
known. They both have characteristics peculiar 
to themselves, and demand a careful study by the 
profession. 

Rhus tox. affects that portion of the ganglionic 
nervous system that presides over the skin, fibrous 
tissues, fascia, sheaths of nerves, tendons, liga- 
ments, muscles and mucous membranes, producing 
nervous irritation and inflammation of a rheumatic 
character. 

Also affects the cerebro-spinal system, including 
the cerebral, sentient and motor nerves, producing 
depression and paralysis. 

This drug must have some haematic properties, 
it being found so useful in low grades of typhoid 
fever. Rheumatism is greatly controlled by this 
remedy. 

Grand Characteristic** 

"Particularly suited to very rheumatic per- 
sons, worse before a storm, and in damp 
weather." — G. 

" Cannot lie long in one position, but must 
shift about, to obtain relief; the relief lasts but 
a short time, when the patient must move 
again." — G. 

The pains are greatly aggravated by rest ; 



RHUS TOXICODENDRON. 37 

worse after midnight and before storms; re- 
lieved by motion; has to toss about constantly 
to get relief. 

"Worse at night, particularly after mid- 
night."— G. 

" Restless at night ; must turn often to find 
a few moments' rest." — G. 

" The child always gets particularly worse 
after midnight ; has more colic ; more diar- 
rhoea, and more restlessness." — G. 

Bad effects from severe wetting in rain, when 
heated. 

Bad effects from strains. 

Eyelids present a bladder-like appearance. 

Burning and redness over large cutaneous 
surfaces, which soon swell up and become cov- 
ered with watery vesicles, accompanied by al- 
most intolerable itching, with a tendency to 
invade large surfaces, rather than to penetrate 
deeply in the tissues. 

Slow fevers ; tongue dry and brown ; sordes 

on the teeth ; bowels loose ; great weakness ; 

powerlessness of the lower limbs; can hardly 

draw them up ; with great restlessness after 

j midnight ; has to move often to get relief. 

Headache relieved by motion. 

General unhappiness of temper. 

" Corners of the mouth sore and ulcerated, 
or chafed around the genitals." — Raue. 



38 RHUS TOXICODENDRON. 

" Putrid taste; after the first mouthful lias 
no appetite." — G. 

" Pain between the shoulders when swallow- 
ing."— G. 

u Soreness as if beaten in the hypochondriac 
region, and still more in the abdomen ; worse 
in the side on which he lies ; worse when turn- 
ing, and more when beginning to move." — L. 

" Diarrhoea, with tearing pains down the 
legs; at every stool the pain streaks down the 
legs, which are powerless." — G. 

Great pain before stool, which is greenish, 
and contains jelly-like globules, or flakes; jelly- 
like stools. 

Involuntary stools, with great exhaustion ; 
bloody stools at night. 

Constant tenesnus, with nausea and tearing 
pains in the intestines ; is rheumatic, and has 
to change his position often to get relief. — G. 

Sense of constriction in the rectum, as though 
one side had grown up. 

Cholera infantum, typhoid type ; the child 
is very restless at night; has to be changed 
often to get relief. 

Urine red and scanty. 

Involuntary irritation during rest. 

Snow-white sediment in the urine. 

Bloody urine discharged in drops. 

" Intense itching and burning of the mons 



RHUS TOXICODENDRON. 39 

veneris, with watery vesicles, and stitching 
pains in the vagina." — G. 

" The menstrual discharge causes a violent 
pain in the vulva." — G. 

"Menorrhagia from a strain; in rheumatic 
females, worse at night; must change positions 
often to get relief, and aggravated on change 
of weather." — G. 

u Membranous dysmenorrhoea in rheumatic 
females." — G. 

u Is particularly indicated where repeated 
drenchings in the rain have deranged the uter- 
ine functions." — G. 

" After labor, a vitiated discharge continues 
from the vagina, with shooting upwards in the 
parts, with a bursting sensation in the head." 
— G. 

" For weeks after delivery, has much pain 
in the right limb, with numbness from the hips 
to the feet."— G. 

"The lochial discharge lasts too long; is 
thin, offensive, and occasionally bloody." — G. 

" Abortion from a strain ; pains worse in the 
last part of the night ; very restless ; has to 
change often to get relief." — G. 

" The breasts are painfully distended, red 
in streaks, with a rheumatic condition of the 
whole body." — G. 

Ichorous, or yellow discharge from the nose. 



40 RHUS TOXICODENDRON. 

" Terrible cough, which seems as if it would 
tear something out of the chest/' — G. 

" A dry, teasing cough, coming on first before 
the chill, and continuing during the chill." — 
Dunham. 

" Putting the hand out of the bed brings on 
the cough." — H. 

"For weeks after delivery, has a terrible 
cough, which seems as if something would be 
torn out of the chest." — G. 

Tickling under the sternum, that excites 
cough. 

"Acute catarrh; the nasal, laryngeal, tra- 
cheal, and bronchial past seem stuffed up ; 
commencing at about sunset, with sneezin 
and dry, hard, tickling cough, continuing very 
severe until midnight, when all the sullerin 
are relieved. Renewed next morning." — C. W. 
Boyce. 

Expectoration of brickdust or bloody sputa, 
raised with great difficulty, with high lever. 

Rheumatoid pains, that affect every part of 
the body, all aggravated by rest and relieved 
by motion. 

Rheumatic paralysis. 

" Pains as if sprained ; ailments from sprain- 
ing or straining, lifting; particularly from 
stretching arms high up to reach things." — H. 

" Lameness and stiffness, and pain on first 



DIGITALIS PURPUREA. 41 

moving after rest, or on getting up in the morn- 
ing ; relieved by continued motion." — H. 

" Stiffness of the limbs before a storm." — G. 

A light edge of inflammation surrounds 
every portion of the eruption, with much itch- 
ing and vesicular inflammation. 

" Rubbing the affected parts increases the 
eruption." — G. 

Vesicular eruptions on any part of the body. 

" Aching in the left arm, with disease of the 
heart." — Raue. 

" Swollen around the ankles after sitting too 
long, particularly in travelling." — H. 

DIGITALIS PURPUREA. 

Purple Foxglove* 

Digitalis acts especially upon the muscular tis- 
sue of the heart and arteries, paralyzing their ac- 
tion to a great degree. Hughes says, " We con- 
clude that Digitalis acts directly upOn the muscu- 
lar tissue of the heart, which it weakens even to 
the extent of paralysis ; that the increased fre- 
quency of the pulse, which results from small 
doses, depends mainly upon cardiac debility— Na- 
ture endeavoring to make up by greater frequency 
for decreasing power ; and that the retardation of 
the heart's action, which is caused by large doses, 
is due to an influence transmitted through the 
vagi. The irregularity and intermission of the 
pulse so characteristic of the drug, we also ascribe 

4* 



42 DIGITALIS PURPUREA. 

to the cardiac debility it induces." " The re- 
searches of M. Claude Bernard show that Digitalis 
is one of the poisons which act directly upon the 
muscular tissue, paralyzing and killing it. It af- 
fects that portion of muscular tissue which consti- 
tutes the heart earlier than any other, so that in 
cold-blooded animals (as frogs) the heart's art ion 
may cease for four hours before general death en- 
sues, producing a dead heart in a living body. 
Rigor mortis sets in exceedingly early ; and, on 
opening the thorax immediately after death, the 
heart is found contracted, rigid, motionless, and 
totally empty. A farther examination dificlof 
remarkable chemical and electrical changes in the 
heart and other muscles. The muscular juice is 
acid instead of alkaline, and the external surf 
is' electrically negative to the cut surface, instead 
of (as normally) positive. The immediate cause of 
this phenomenon has been shown to be the change 
of the muscular juice from alkaline to acid ; and 
this very change is involved in the destructive ac- 
tion of the drug upon the integrity of the muscu- 
lar tissue." 

Digitalis also affects the pneumogastric nerve, 
mucous membrane of the stomach and descending 
colon, kidneys, and brain. 

Grand Characteristics. 
In all diseases for which Digitalis will be 
found useful, the heart will be more or less in- 
volved, accompanied with irregular or inter- 
mittent pulse. 



DIGITALIS PURPUREA. 43 

The least movement produces violent palpi- 
tation of the heart. 

"A sensation as if the heart would stop 
beating if she moved, with fear of impending 
death/— Hale. 

Frequent stitches in the heart. 

Short, hurried respiration. 

Desponding and fearful, with great appre- 
hension of the future. 

Excessive desire to be alone. 

Stools very light-colored and loose. 

(Edema of the feet and legs. 

Bloating and paleness of the face. 

Hissing before the ears. 

Objects seem paler than they really are, and 
have a greenish look. 

Profuse flow of frothy saliva. 

Stinging in the throat between the acts of 
deglutition. 

"Nausea, as if she would die; more in the 
morning." — G. 

" Motion produces vomiting and great faint- 
ness."— G. 

" Smell of food excites violent nausea, with 
clean tongue, thirst for water, and absence of 
all fever."— G. 

" Tendency to nausea without real nausea." 
— Raue. 



44 CIMICIFUQA RACEMOSA. 

Feeling of goneness in the stomach, as if he 
would die, with deathly nausea and vomiting. 

" Stools in the evening, passing great quan- 
tities of ascarides." — G. 

" Ash-colored stools." — Hughes. 

This color of the stools is probably can 
by a depraved secretion of the follicles of the 
colon, and not from hepatic disease. 

Obstinate constipation for several weeks. 

Frequent and painful emission of small 
quantities of burning urine of a dark, cloudy 
color. 

Profuse and frequent emission of clear, pale 
urine. 

" Dropsy consequent on organic disease of 
the heart, and in anasarca following scarla- 
tina." — Marcy and Hunt. 

Given in large doses, it is getting quite a 
reputation for delirium tremens. 

CIMICIFUGA RACEMOSA. 

Black Cohosh. 

Acts upon the ganglionic and especially upon 
the cerebrospinal system, the muscular system, 
ligaments of the vertebra, and the female gene: 
tive organs. 

Nerves of Motion. — It causes nervous tremors re- 
sembling chorea. Dr. T. C. Miller Bays, M Fifteen 
years' observation and experience have proved thi* 



CIMICIFUGA RACEMOSA. 45 

as;ent to be one of the most remarkable in all dis- 
eases of the ganglio-spinal system, particularly 
when the motor side is excited ; and yet, in the 
whole, prevails as an atony in the muscular and 
nervous system." 

Nerves of Sensation. — Dr. Hale says, "It seems 
to exercise considerable control over this system, 
independently of its action on the vascular system. 
It cures many of those purely neuralgic pains to 

t'hich females are liable." 
Muscular System. — Dr. Hale says, " One of the 
rst of the series of primary effects of this drug is 
to cause relaxation of the muscular system. This 
leads directly to painful conditions of muscles, or 
myalgia. Under this head are to be found the 
burning, cramping, stitching pains which affect 
these structures. Cimicifuga is pre-eminently a 
muscle remedy. Hence its efficacy in myalgia and 

s varieties, as pleurodynia." 

In muscular rheumatism and myostitis caused 
iy cold, nervous exhaustion, or over-exertion, this 

ill be found a valuable remedy. Dr. Ludlam 

es it when " rheumatism affects the belly of a 

uscle." 

Upon the uterus it has a most powerful action, 
producing a rheumatic, neuralgic state of the ute- 
rus and ovaries ; amenorrhea ; dysmenorrhea and 
abortion ; accompanied with hysteria ; nervous- 
ness ; irritability ; sleeplessness ; sensitiveness and 
low-spirited. 



46 CIMICIFUGA RACEMOSA. 

Grand Characteristics. 

Nervous and muscular irritation, of a rheu- 
matic, neuralgic, or gouty origin, especially in 
delicate hysterical females, who are afflicted 
with more or less diseases of the generative 
organs. 

Neuralgic, rheumatic dysmenorrhea, and 
after-pains, with great mental and nervous irri- 
tability; sleeplessness; low-spirited and very 
sensitive. 

Choreic affections in nervous, hysterical, 
rheumatic females, from irritations of the gen- 
erative organs. 

Rheumatic or neuralgic irritation of the lig- 
aments in the lumbar region, producing lum- 
bago or crick in the back. 

Uterine rheumatism. 

Obstinate insomnia. 

Great wakefulness, imagining strange ob- 
jects in the room, on the bed. &<\ ; with di- 
lated pupils; tremor of the limbs. 

Incessant talking; roaring in the head. 

Pains in every portion of the head, but more 
in the vertex and occiput; often extending to 
the shoulders and down the spine ; of a pr< 
ing and throbbing nature, accompanied with 
delirium. 

" Sensation as if the top of the head would 
fly off, with a sensation as if the cerebrum was 



CIMICIFUGA RACEMOSA. 47 

too large for the skull, pressing outwards and 
upwards." 

" All the pains in the head are from within 
outwards.'' — Hale. 

Headache of drunkards and students. 

u Intense and persistent pains in the eyeballs, 
of a dull, aching, sore nature." 

Pupils dilated. 

Dry pharynx, with dysphagia and frequent 
inclination to swallow. 

Nausea and vomiting due to cerebral or ner- 
vous sympathetic irritation. 

Sinking sensation at the stomach. 

Neuralgic pains in the abdomen. 

Urine pale and abundant. 

Leucorrhoea in hysterical and rheumatic fe- 
males. 

Nervous irritation of the ovaries, producing 
amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea, and menorrhagia 
in rheumatic females. 

Rheumatic and neuralgic affections of the 
uterus. 

Threatened abortion in rheumatic hysteri- 
cal females, with much excitement. 

Affects the motor nerves of the uterus as 
well as the sentient, as so beautifully shown 
in after-pains. 

Dry cough from irritation, and tickling in 
the lower part of the larynx. 



48 ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM. 

Reflex nervous pains. 

Urticaria from menstrual or rheumatic dis- 
orders. 

Weakness, trembling, and spasmodic action 
of the muscles, as shown in choreic affections. 

Its influence over the spinal cord renders it 
capable of curing many diseases arising there- 
from. 

ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM. 
Tartar Em 

The three great spheres of Tartar emetic are, 
first, upon the pneumogastric nerve ; second, upon 
the respiratory mucous membrane: and third, upon 
the skin. Also acts upon the base of the brain 
and medulla oblongata, and the blood becomes li- 
quefied. 

The action upon the pneumogastric nerve « 
ing vomiting, is sympathetic or nervous, n 
trie. Hughes says, "The emetic influence of tar- 
tarized antimony appear- to be purely neuro 
in its modus operandi. The numerous muscular 
movements, whose harmonious play produces the 
complex act called vomiting, are under the con- 
trol of the nervous centres at the base of the brain, 
and in the medulla oblongata, and are especially 
affected through the medium of the pneumog 
trie nerves. That Tartar emetic acts directly on 
these centres and through these nerves, is shown 
positively by the fact that it causes vomiting when 
injected into the veins or rectum, or rubbed into 



ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM. 49 

the skin, as well as when introduced into the stom- 
ach, and in the latter mode of administration is 
emetic in doses too small to irritate the mucous 
membrane ; negatively, by the experiment of divid- 
ing the vagi on both sides, when neither antimony 
nor any other remedy will act." 

Mucous Membranes, — It produces a pustular in- 
flammation in the mouth, throat, oesophagus, 
stomach, and small intestines. Upon the respira- 
tory mucous membrane the inflammation is of a 
catarrhal character, though pustules have been 
seen in the larynx. 

u The nares escape untouched, but the inflamma- 
tion beginning in the larynx becomes intense in 
the trachea and bronchi. In the lungs the pneu- 
monia induced never goes beyond the second stage 
(i. e., that of red hepatization) ; that it is always 
accompanied by bronchitis ; and that the inflam- 
mation of the bronchial tubes is observed in cases 
where the animals die, before the pneumonia has 
time to be developed." — Hughes. 

Skin. — Upon this tissue it produces an eruption 
very similar to variola and ecthyma. This pustu- 
lar ulceration can be produced by vaccination or 
internal administration. 

Grrand Characteristics. 

Large collections of mucus in the bronchial 
tubes ; expectorated with great difficulty ; in- 
dicating approaching paralysis of the pneumo- 
gastric nerve. 



50 ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM. 

"When the patient coughs, there appears 
a large collection of mucus in the bronchial 
tubes, and it seems as if much would be ex- 
pectorated, but nothing comes up." — G. 

" Much nausea and vomiting day and night, 
with drowsiness. ,, — G. 

" Colliquative diarrhoea, with meteoris!!!.' 1 
— G. 

Vomiting of large quantities of mucus, 
which is a nervous and sympathetic rather 
than a gastric effect. 

" Vertigo, with drowsiness/ 1 — II. 

" Cannot keep his eyes open; irresistible 
sleepiness, and deep, stupefied sleep ; when 
awake, hopelessness and despair, or chill and 
fever, or vomiting of food." — H. 

"The head trembles, particularly when 
coughing, with an inward trembling; teeth 
chattering, and drowsiness, more in the even- 
ing and in warmth." — H. 

" Tongue coated thinly white, with reddened 
papillae; red edges, particularly with whoop- 
ing-cough." — H. 

" Nausea and vomiting of large collections 
of mucus." — G. 

The child wants to be carried, and cries if 
any one touches it. — Lippe. 

Painful urging to urinate; scanty discharge; 
dark red, or the least bloody, with stitches in 
the bladder and burning in the urethra. 



ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM. 51 

" Leucorrhoea of watery blood ; liable to 
occur in paroxysms ; worse when sitting." — G. 

" Catarrhal and pustular inflammation of 
the mucous membranes." — Hughes. 

" The pustular inflammation occurs in the 
oesophagus, mouth, throat, larynx, stomach, 
and small intestines." — Hughes. 

" Upon the respiratory mucous membrane 
the influence of Tartar emetic is almost purely 
catarrhal, although pustules are said to have 
been found in the larynx." — Hughes. 

" The nares escape untouched ; the inflam- 
mation, beginning in the larynx, becomes in- 
tense in the trachea and bronchi." — Hughes. 

In broncho-pneumonia, second stage, with 
bronchi loaded with mucus, it is specific. 

Paralysis of the lungs, with great dyspnoea 
and fits of suffocation. 

u Rattling or hollow cough ; worse at night, 
with suffocation ; throat full of phlegm ; sweat 
on forehead ; vomiting of food." — H. 

" Coughing and gaping constantly, particu- 
larly children, when crying or dozing, and 
twitching in the face." — H. 

Acute oedema of the lungs. 

" Cough, when we have partial paralysis of 
the pneumogastric nerve; short, hoarse, weak, 
nearly suffocating breathing, with whistling 
noise ; thorax expands with great difficulty ; 



52 VERATRUM ALBUM. 

head thrown backwards, with great anxiety 
and prostration ; face livid and cold ; forehead 
and sometimes the whole body covered with 
cold perspiration; pulse feeble and acceler- 
ated." 

Fever of dentition. 

" Beating and throbbing through the whole 
body, particularly in the belly or pit of stom- 
ach, with great concern about the future." — 
Raue. 

Variola, vomiting, viscid mucus clogging the 
air-passages; pustules in the larynx, mouth. 
throat, and digestive organs. 

" Ecthymatous eruptions/' — E. Wilson. 



VERATRUM ALBUM. 
White R ' 

Veratrum alb. acts especially on the great sym- 
pathetic system, on the cerebro-sj.inal axis, pneu- 
mogastric nerve, and the special Bene 

The great sympathetic " tills two ifieee in 

the animal economy. It regulates the metamor- 
phosis of tissue, the basis of all secretion and nu- 
trition ; and, by its infinitesimal ramifications on 
the coats of the bloodvessels, it gives tonicity to 
every part of the vascular system, and especially 
to the capillaries. "When its function fails, se< 
tion stops, and the watery elements of the Mood 
exude through the relaxed tissues. The acid se- 



VERATRUM ALBUM. 53 

cretions of the stomach, and the alkaline secretions 
of the intestines, are perhaps the first arrested. 
Then that great emunctory, the liver, becomes 
dormant, and the stools are grayish, or foamy and 
limpid. If not relieved here, the patient will sink 
rapidly ; the kidneys will soon stop secreting, the 
metamorphosis of tissue everywhere will cease, 
and rapid emaciation, collapse, with unquenchable 
thirst (watery diarrhoea), and death closes the 
scene." — W. H. Holcombe, M.D. 

Xow this is just the effect of Veratrum alb. on 
the ganglionic system. It strikes down the func- 
tions of the ganglionic system that preside over 
the vascular capillary system of the intestinal mu- 
cous membrane, causing serous diarrhoea, which 
is a genuine sweating of the mucous membrane of 
the bowels. This watery element is mainly de- 
rived from the innumerable follicles in the intes- 
tinal tract. The choleraic and Veratrum album 
poison both affect the great sympathetic system so 
nearly alike, that in cholera times no man is able 
to tell one from the other. 

The powerful influence it has upon the pneumo- 
gastric nerves to produce such violent nausea and 
vomiting, shows that the nervous centres at the 
base of the brain, and in the medulla oblongata, 
are especially affected. 

Upon the brain it produces a " sudden sinking 
of innervation, causing loss of power to control 
one's movements ; staggers about ; feels dizzy ; 
vision becomes obscure, and complete extinction 

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54 VERATRUM ALBUM. 

of nervous power is going on at a fearful rate/' — 
Hempel. 

Hughes says, " The picture presented by acute 
Veratrum poisoning is decidedly choleraic There 
is general coldness, with prostration going on to 
collapse; embarrassed circulation; copious watery 
vomiting and purging; and severe spasmodic colic 
The more recent experiments of Schroff have fur- 
ther proved that these evacuation- do not depend 
upon gastro-enteritis, as Veratrum causes no in- 
flammation, but at most a transient hyperamiti of 
the parts it touches. If its action be more inten- 
sified, it causes a rapid degeneration of the gastric 
mucous membrane, but no gastro-enteriti 

Grand Characteristics* 

Exhausting diarrhoea, with cold sweat, es- 
pecially on the forehead. 

"Cold sweat upon the forehead." — G. 

" Leaden color of the face, with frequeirl 
nausea and vomiting, with groat exhaustion/ 1 
— G. 

"Very exhausting diarrhoea; excessively 
weak after every stool; with cold sweat on 
the forehead." — G. 

" Terrible colic ; the suffering causes a cold 
sweat to stand upon the surface, especially on 
the forehead." — G. 

" Cramps of the limbs, with cold sweat/' 
— G. 



VERATRUM ALBUM. 55 

" Thirsty with craving for the coldest drinks." 
— G. 

Anguish ; fear of death. 

"Despair about his position in society; feels 
very unlucky." — H. 

" Headache causing delirium ; demented ; 
and cold sweat upon the forehead." — G. 

Wanders about the house; is very taciturn. 

" Sudden paroxysms of a sinking of cerebral 
innervation , characterized by sudden loss of 
power to control one's movements ; feels dizzy ; 
staggers about ; vision becomes obscured ; the 
pulse is depressed ; and complete extinction of 
nervous power is going on at a fearful rate." — 
Hempel. 

Puerperal mania and convulsions, with vio- 
lent cerebral congestion; bluish and bloated 
face; protruded eyes; wild shrieks, and dispo- 
sition to tear. 

Excessive mirthfulness ; collapse of pulse ; 
cold extremities ; cold sweat on the forehead ; 
expression of fright ; anxiety ; and stertorous 
breathing. 

" Sensation as if a lump of ice was on top 
of the head." — Raue. 

" Attacks of pain, with delirium, or driving 
to madness.'' — H. 

" Disposed to talk about faults of others, or 



i 



56 VERATRUM ALBUM. 

silence ; but, if irritated, scolding, and calling 
names." — H. 

Nervous headache at each menstrual mo- 
limina. 

Vertigo in drunkards, opium-eaters, or those 
who use tobacco, characterized by sudden faint- 
ing, collapse of pulse, loss of vision, cold sweat 
on forehead. 

Cold, collapsed face; pinchcd-up bluish 
nose; dry and cracked lips; lock-jaw; grating 
of the teeth. 

" While in bed, face is red; after getting up 
it becomes pale." — II. 

" Neck too weak to hold the head up, par- 
ticularly children with whooping-cough. " — 11. 

Tongue cold. 

Voice feeble. 

Cold breath, with great prostration, and 
cold perspiration on the forehead. 

" Frequent nausea and vomiting, with leaden 
color of face, and cold perspiration, especially 
on the forehead." — G. 

Violent retching ; wants everything cold. 

Least quantity of liquid excites vomiting. 

Motion excites the nausea. 

Terrible colic, with violent nausea and vom- 
iting. 

Unquenchable desire for cold drinks. 



VERATRUM ALBUM. 57 

Vomiting, with diarrhoea and great prostra- 
tion. 

Burning and oppression in the epigastrium. 

Colicodjaiia, with sensation as though the 
bowels were tied up in knots. 

" Irritation of the coeliac plexus, with faint- 
ing, great prostration, cold perspiration, nausea 
and vomiting, Hippocratic countenance, loss of 
vision, and cold extremities." — Hempel. 

Burning in the bowels, as from hot coals. 

Copious watery diarrhoea, with violent nau- 
sea and vomiting. 

" Watery diarrhoea expelled in a forcible 
gush, with little or no griping.": — Raue. 

Involuntary watery stools without the pa- 
tient's knowledge. 

" Dj^sinenorrhoea, with vomiting and purg- 
ing, or exhausting diarrhoea with cold sweat." 
— H. 

Nymphomania, from unsatisfied passion or 
mental causes. 

Fevers, with great coldness externally, and 
violent internal heat ; pulse thread-like ; great 
craving for cold drinks. 

Spasmodic cough, with blue face, suffoca- 
tion; retching. 

Asthma; with great suffocation, anguish, 
and oppression about the heart. 

" Difficult walking ; first the right then the 



58 ARNICA MONTANA. 

left hip-joint feels paralytic (or, in other pa- 
tients, first left then right)." — H. 

Disease caused by cold drinks in warm wea- 
ther. 

Adapted to young people and women of a 
sanguine or nervo-sanguine temperament; also 
to people who are habitually cold and deficient 
in vital reaction, gay dispositions, fitful mood, 
and who have not been exhausted by long ex- 
cesses or starvation. 

ARNICA MONTANA. 

Leopard's Ba 

Arnica acts upon the muscular Bystem, tV 
and tendons; on the capillary Bystem of the veins 

and arteries; on the dermoid and cellular tissue; 
on the lymphatic system ; and upon the nervous 
system. No remedy can equal Arnica for those 
" muscular pains which are so apt to occur in the 
weakly invalid ; these pains may occur wherever 
there are voluntary muscles, or their tendinous pro- 
longations; the trunk is more commonly attacked 
than the limbs; the abdominal walls more than 
the thoracic, and the legs more constantly than 
the arms ; they are generally mistaken for the pains 
of neuralgia, hysteria, spinal irritation, indigestion 
or disease of some internal organ. The tendinous 
parts are more frequently the seat of the pain than 
the muscular, for every muscular fibre terminal 
at each end in tendinous fibre, # and these are in- 
serted into the bones ; hence, whenever a muscle 



ARNICA MONTANA. 59 

contracts, there are four strains upon the tendinous 
fibre, viz., one at each end of the muscle, and one 
at each of its insertions into the bone ; hence, these 
pains are four times as numerous as all the muscles 
in the body. When the gastrocnemius muscle of 
the leg has been overstretched or overstrained, the 
pain is confined almost exclusively to the origin 
and insertion of the tendo-Achillis. When delicate 
females first attempt to sit up, after a severe fit of 
illness, they are apt to get a severe pain in the 
aponeurosis of the trapezius, and occipital insertion 
of the same muscle. The severe and unusual strain 
thrown upon the erector muscles of the back, while 
leaning over a table to cut out dress patterns ; the 
immense muscular exertion required in the birth 
of the child, &c, &c. This muscular ache often 
reaches a high pitch of severity, so as to cause 
a burning pain between the shoulders for many 
hours. When the pain is seated in the muscle, it 
is aching ; when it has been severely strained it is 
a burning ache ; when in the tendons, it is described 
as pain. The more feeble the patient, the more 
apt they are to have these myalgic pains." 

On the Capillaries. — The capillaries may be di- 
vided into those of secretion and nutrition. Arnica 
affects more particularly the capillaries of secre- 
tion; hence, its usefulness in hemorrhages, perspira- 
tions, mucous fluxes, dropsical effusions, &c. The 
capillaries are tubular continuations of the arte- 
ries, and the commencement of the veins. This 
accounts for the great power of Arnica to produce 



60 ARNICA MONTANA. 

absorption, in extravasations of blood, effusions of 
serum, such as occur after falls, blows, cV 

On the Dermoid and CeUvlar 7 V mica has a 

powerful influence, producing a pustule very pain- 
ful to touch, with a red inflamed bafi mbling 
boils; also a vesicular eruption. The extravasa- 
tion of blood into the cellular tissue while in a 
fluid state, Arnica causes the venous capillai 
and absorbents to quicklj take up. The lymphat- 
ics are not so much influenced by Arnica as the 
venous capillaries are. 

Nervous System. — Affects the motor more than 

the sentient nervous system, as shown in paralj 
from mechanical injuries, where there is more or 

less extravasation of blood, lymph, , v 

Grand Cltaractrristh -s. 

Diseases of a traumatic origin; the muscu- 
lar fibre is chiefly involved; the pains are sore 
and aching. 

" The bed or couch on which he lies feels 
too hard; complains constantly of it. and keeps 
changing from place to place." — Rate. 

" Inflammation caused by a bruise or con- 
cussion; a bruised, sore feeling remaining." 
— G. 

" Sore and bruised feeling all through the 
patient, as if from a bruise." — G. 

Hemorrhages from mechanical injuries. 



ARNICA MONTANA. 61 

Sensation of soreness in the stomach; and 
belchings, tasting like rotten eggs. 

Especially adapted to sanguine plethoric 
persons, with lively complexions. 

Acts feebly upon people that are greatly de- 
bilitated, with soft flesh and impoverished 
blood. 

Is very sensitive, with anxiety and restless- 
ness. 

Stitches in the head, especially in the tem- 
ples and forehead. 

Bad effects from concussion of the brain. 

Traumatic ophthalmia. 

" The face or head alone is hot, while the 
body is cool." — Raue. 

" Dry heat of the face, with coldness of the 
nose. ,, — H. 

" Swelling of the cheek, with throbbing and 
twitching pains ; swollen lips, and heat in the 
head." 

" Hard, tensive, shining red swelling of the 
left cheek." — Marcy and Hunt. 

Cracked lips, with formication as if they 
would go to sleep. 

" Bleeding from the nose."— G. 

"Contusive pain in the nose from above 
downwards ; same in the ears." 

" Toothache ; the roots of the teeth feel as 

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62 ARNICA MONTANA. 

if they had been scraped ; face and cheek hot 
and swollen." — Hempel. 

" Putrid eructations, as if from rotten eggs." 
— Jahr. 

" Feeling of nauseous repletion after eat- 
ing."— G. 

" Vomiting of dark clotted blood." — Hempel. 

Myalgia of the stomach. 

" The pain comes on immediately, even 
during eating; the patient is weak and lax 
of fibre, and often has myalgia elsewhere." — 
Hughes. 

Brown urine, with brick-red sediment. 

" Cannot walk erect on account of a bruised 
sore feeling in the uterine region." — II. 

After severe labor, great soreness of the 
parts. 

Traumatic injuries of the testicles. 

" Nipples itch, and are sore, as if bruised." 
— G. 

Emissions of flatus from the anus, smelling 
like rotten eggs. 

Stools of mucus, blood, and pus, where the 
muscles of the rectum are involved. 

Sensation of soreness of the muscles of the 
chest. 

"Myalgia of the intercostal muscles after 
great exertions, with a sensation as if all the 



COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE. 63 

ribs were bruised ; short breath ; pain in the 
chest; with anxiety." — Raue. 

" Pleurisy, when the exudation consists of 
coagulable lymph or serous exudation." — 
Hughes. 

" Typhoid fever ; with the greatest indiffer- 
ence ; putrid breath ; and red spots, like sug- 
gilations, on the body." — H. 

" Gout ; with the greatest fear of being 
struck by persons coming towards him across 
the room." — H. 

" Tendency to small boils ; ecchymoses on 
various parts of the body." — H. 

Bad effects from strains, falls, bruises, con- 
cussions, and all mechanical injuries. 

C. Hering, M.D., says: " Arnica is more apt 
than Aconite to spoil a case. Arnica makes a 
much more profound impression upon the sys- 
tem than Aconite. Its real culminating ac- 
tion is similar to typhus fever. Brilliant re- 
sults have frequently been obtained with it in 
the worst forms of typhus. No Arnica should 
be used except such as is made from the root." 

COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE. 

Meadow Saffron. 

Acts especially upon the cerebro-spinal centres, 
and terminates in a violent inflammation, of a 
choleraic character, in the mucous membrane of 



64 COLOHICUM AUTUMNALE. 

the gastro-intestinal canal. The ganglionic cen- 
tres are most powerfully influenced, M shown by 
the effects it has upon the vaso-motor nerves of 
the alimentary canal. The next organ moel in- 
fluenced is the kidneys. It also affects the li\ 
lungs, heart, and salivary gland-. 

Grand Ch a ra cter ist fag . 

Arthritic or rheumatic diathefl 

" Sudden sinking of the vital forces ; if the 
patient is raised up, the head falls backwards; 
the mouth opens to its widest extent. 91 — Rai 

Arthritic or neuralgic inflammation of the 
intestinal canal, where the mucous membrane 
is principally involved. 

"Sero-mucous vomiting and rice-water stools, 
thrown off with great force*; with cramps of 
the abdominal muscles, flexors of the arms 
and feet; and shrunken featun 

" Cold surface, tongue and breath; mottled 
skin and bluish nails." 

"Great flatulent distension of the stomach/ 1 

"Stools like jelly, or bloody mucus, With 
spasms of the sphincter ani." 

Dropsy of the uterus, from suppression of 
the menses. 

"Urine dark and scanty; discharged in 
drops, depositing a whitish sediment.'' 

Dry, hacking cough, with burning and feel- 
ing of constriction across the chest. 






SENEGA. 65 

" Rheumatic pericarditis and rheumatism in 
the small joints; rheumatic pains, that fre- 
quently change about; they are of a tearing 
nature, and are generally in the muscles." 

Gout ; this is the real specific for this pain- 
ful disease : " The pulse is slightly irritated ; 
affected parts exceedingly painful ; skin looks 
rose-colored, and leaves a white spot under 
the pressure of the fingers." 

More strongly called for if there is more or 
less irritation of the gastro-intestinal canal. 

" In warm weather these tearing pains are 
principally felt at the surface of the body ; as 
the air grows colder, they seem to penetrate 
the deeper tissues and bones;" — Teste; 

SENEGA. 

$rlafce-root. 

Acts especially on the mucoiis membranes of the 
respiratory organs, the fibrous tissue, eyes, and di- 
gestive drgatis. 

Crrand Characteristics « 

Its main sphere of usefulness is in diseases 
of the respiratory mucous membrane. 

" In subacute or chronic exudations of the 
pleura, and in catarrhal pleuro-pneumonia, 
where Bryonia heLs foiled." — Hale. 

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66 BAPTISIA TINCTORIA. 

" Irritating, shaking, dry cough ; in chronic 
bronchitis, especially in old people." — Hughes. 

Severe pains about the chest. 

" Soreness of the walls of the chest on mov- 
ing the arms, particularly the left." — J. B. 
Bell. 

" Burning pain about the heart." — J. B. 
Bell. 

" Sensation of trembling, with no visible 
trembling." — J. B. Bell. 

" It has been administered with great suc- 
cess in hydrothorax, ascites, and anasar 
after primary or secondary albuminuria." — 
E. M. Hale. 

"Iritis and specks on the cornea. n — HUGHES 

Watery diarrhoea, with griping pains in the 
bowels, nausea, and vomiting. 

"Frequent emissions of urine with greenish 
tinge, depositing a cloudy sediment." 

" Urine at first mixed with mucous filaments ; 
afterwards it becomes thick and cloudy." 

BAPTISIA TINCTORIA. 

Wild Indigo. 

Acts especially upon the ganglionic and cerebro- 
spinal nervous system as a sedative ; producing 
paralysis both of sensation and motion, very closely 
resembling that of typhoid fever, for which it is 
such a specific* 



BAPTISIA TINCTORIA. 67 

Mucous Membranes. — Has a special effect upon 
the mucous membrane of the buccal cavity and 
lower portion of the intestinal canal, producing 
ulceration "having a fetid odor and a sanious, 
excoriating character." — Hale. 

Vascular System. — Baptisia causes " a condition 
of the blood similar to the typhus crasis, and a 
state of the fluids of the body nearly identical 
with that occurring in low fevers." — Hale. 

Glandular System. — Baptisia has an irritating 
effect upon the lymphatic and glandular system, 
producing swelling and enlargement of the tonsils 
and inguinal glands. 

Grand Characteristics* 

"Discharges from mucous surfaces, having 
a fetid odor and a sanious, excoriating char- 
acter." — Hale. 

Typhoid diseases, with "delirious stupor; 
face dark red, with a besotted expression ; 
eyes injected; diarrhoea; tongue coated brown, 
dry, particularly in the centre ; very offensive 
breath ; sordes on the teeth ; fetor of the urine 
and stools." — Small. 

Very fetid and exhausting diarrhoea. 

Dysenteric stools of blood and mucus, with 
severe tenesmus and colicky pains in the hyp- 
ogastrium, before and during stool, without 
much fever. 



68 BAPTISIA TINCTORIA. 

u She cannot go to sleep because she cannot 
get herself together. Her head feels as though 
scattered about, and she tosses about the bed 
to get the pieces together." — J. B. Bell, M.D. 

Dull stupefying headache. 

Stupor and delirium at night. 

Confusion of ideas. 

" While answering a question, falls into a 
deep sleep in the middle of a sentence." 

Head feels too heavy, with numbness. 

Excitement of the brain, especially at night 

" Face dark red, with a besotted expression.* 
— Small. 

Confusion of sight. 

" Soreness of the eyeballs; they feel as if 
they would be pressed into the head." 

Tongue dry and red, as if burned. 

"Tongue coated brown, and dry, particu- 
larly in the centre." — Small. 

11 Pasty tongue, heavily furred." — Hale. 

" Putrid, offensive breath." — Hale. 

"Putrid ulceration of the buccal mucous 
membrane, with salivation." — Hale. 

"The sweat, urine, and stools are all ex- 
tremely fetid." — Small. 

" Very fetid, exhausting diarrhoea." 

Dysenteric stools of scanty, bloody mucus. 

" Violent colicky pains in the hypogastrium 
before and during stool." 






CHELIDONIUM MAJUS. 69 

Great tenesmus, with stools of mucus and 
blood without fever. 

" Soreness of the flesh and whole body, with 
chilliness." — Douglass. 

"Limbs tremble and are very weak." — 
Douglass. 

Restless nights, with delirium and frightful 
dreams. 

Patient must go to the door for fresh air. 

CHELIDONIUM MAJUS. 

Great Celandine. 

Acts through the ganglionic system upon the 
lungs, liver, digestive organs, kidneys, and skin. 
Also powerfully irritates the sentient nervous sys- 
tem. 

Upon the lungs it produces congestion and in- 
flammation, sometimes going on to hepatization ; 
the mucous membrane is also involved, producing 
broncho-pneumonia. 

The liver is powerfully affected by this remedy. 
Dr. Bachmann's proving gives us the following 
symptoms : " Pain, both acute and dull, and ten- 
derness of the liver ; pain in the right shoulder ; 
stools either soft, or bright yellow, or whitish and 
costive." Deeply tinged urine appeared in all the 
provings. "In three, the skin became yellow or 
dark ; and in one, regular jaundice set in." It has 
cured numerous cases of jaundice, gall-stones, 
acute and chronic hepatitis. 



70 CHELIDONIUM MAJUS. 

Upon the kidneys the renal irritation is so great 
that in " one case an examination of the urine 
showed the presence of tube-casts of increased uric 
acid, and diminished chloride of sodium. The 
mischief in this case was so considerable that 
(edematous swellings of the extremities occur- 
red." — Hughes. 

It also acts upon the diaphragm. 

Grand Characteristics. 

" Constant pain under the lower inner angle 
of the right shoulder-blade." — G. 

Loose rattling COUgh, remains a long time. 

Nausea causes great heat of the body. 

"Stools like sheep's dang. 91 — G. 

Very apt to have hepatic disease, with jaun- 
dice and pain in the right shoulder. 

Deeply-tinged green urine. 

Retarded menstruation, but when the menses 
do come on, they continue too long. 

Severe neuralgia of the head and eyes. 

Acts best in melancholic, choleric tempera- 
ments. 

Adapted to neuralgias, inflammations, and 
infectious diseases, as whooping-cough. 

Sallow, jaundiced complexion. 

Burning and redness of the face. 

"Must close the eyes, and is alleviated 
thereby, without photophobia." 



CHELIDONIUM MAJUS. 71 

White or yellow coating on the tongue. 

Loathing of food. 

Gastric or bilious diarrhoea, stools slimy, 
grayish-yellow, or watery. 

" Stools like sheep's dung." — G. 

Urine scanty, deep yellow, and sour. 

Bloating in the region of the liver, stomach, 
and spleen, with hardness and painfulness on 
pressure. 

Acute and chronic hepatitis. 

Gall-stones, with hepatodynia and general 
jaundice. 

" Pain in the whole region of the liver, re- 
lieved by eating. 

" Pinching and spasmodic pains in the inner 
border of the right scapula, with a kind of 
drawing, pressive shooting from the left side 
of the occiput to the forehead." 

Violent, spasmodic, straining cough, with 
profuse lachrymation ; comes in paroxysms, 
with burning, shooting pains. 

Constant tickling and desire to cough in the 
larynx. 

Spasmus glottidis. 

Long-continued cough, with rattling mucus. 

Bilious or gastric pneumonia, with lungs 
full of mucus, from paralysis of the pneumo- 
gastric nerve ; cheeks dark red. 



72 



GROUP II. 



GROUP II. 



Belladonna, 

Hyoscyamus, 

Stramonium, 

Opium, 

Alcohol, 

Ether, 

Chloroform, 

Glonoine, 

Agaricus, 

Cicuta vir., 

Ailanthus, 



Gymnocladus, 

Camphora, 

Zizia aur 

Cuprum, 

Cannabis ind., 

Coflba, 

Tabacnm, 

Solanum oig., 

Acthusa, 

Lachnantes. 



The above group represent our true cerebral 
stimulants or narcotics. They all cause, prtmort/y, 
active congestion and inflammation of the brain 

and its membranes; furious delirium, spasms, and 
an excited circulation. 

Secondarily, paralysis of the voluntary and in- 
voluntary muscles; coldness of tin* surface; pros- 
tration; coma; asphyxia, and death. 

Pathological Conditions. — Arteries of the brain 
highly engorged ; effusions of serum; extravasa- 
tion, and a liquid state of the blood. 

Notwithstanding this similarity, each remedy 
produces physio-pathological states peculiar to it- 
self, "differing from each other as much as tl 
differ in their symptomatic manifestations." But 
their general similarity defines the group. 



ATROPA BELLADONNA. 73 

ATROPA BELLADONNA. 

Deadly Nightshade. 

The great centre of action for Belladonna is upon 
the cerebro-spinal nervous system, especially affect- 
ing the cerebrum, producing active congestion of 
the whole encephalic mass; delirium, mania, in- 
somnia, sopor, exhaustion, and active inflammation 
of the brain, with flushed face and violent throb- 
bing of the carotid arteries. 

The medulla oblongata, and the nerves that arise 
from it, are powerfully irritated by the Belladonna 
poison, as shown by their perverted function, such 
as difficult deglutition and articulation, spasms of 
the larynx and pharynx, spasmodic cough, stridu- 
lus respiration, &c. " Post-mortem examination 
discloses considerable cerebral congestion, involv- 
ing also the cerebellum and medulla oblongata." 

Upon the eye it produces anaesthesia, amaurosis, 
visual hallucinations, photophobia, and through 
the sympathetic, it produces dilatation of the pu- 
pil, with brilliant staring eyes, and conjunctival 
inflammation. 

Upon the throat it produces excessive dryness ; 
the mucous membrane is of a deep crimson color, 
with constant inclination to swallow; the secre- 
tions are entirely arrested. 

The sphincter muscles of the bladder, rectum, 
and uterus, are completely paralyzed by the Bella- 
donna poison. 

Upon the spinal cord and its membranes, Brown- 
Sequard, says : " The two remedies most powerful 

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74 ATROPA BELLADONNA. 

in diminishing congestion of the spinal cord, are 
Belladonna and Ergot of Rye. These two reme< I 
are powerful excitants of unstriped muscular fibres 
in the bloodvessels ; in the uterus; in the bowels; in 
the iris, &c. Both of them dilate the pupil ; both 
are employed with success to produce contractions 
of the uterus ; but each of them has more power 
in certain parts than the other. Belladonna a 
more than Ergot on the bloodvessels of the iris 
(which is the principal cause of dilatation of the 
pupils); on the bloodvessels of the breast (which 
is the principal cause of the cessation of the secre- 
tion of milk) ; on the muscular fibres of the bow 
(which is the mode of its action in Strangulated 
hernia); on the Bphincter of the bladder, which is 
one of the causes of its Buccess against nocturnal 
incontinence of urine. Ergol acts more than Bel- 
ladonna on the muscular fibres of the uterus, on 
the bloodvessels of the spinal cord, \. ." 

Upon the skin it has a remarkable and powerful 
effect; the skin becomes intensely red; painful and 
hot; parts much swollen, identical with phlegmon- 
ous erysipelas, but not with vesicular. The inflam- 
mation is more obstinate and deepseated than that 
which calls for Aconite. 

Upon the generative organs it produces congestion 
and spasms. 

Marcy and Hunt say: "The specific action of 
Belladonna is on the cerebral system, which is the 
central point from which all its symptoms radiate, 
as from a centre in all diseases. Even the inflam- 
mations induced by this remedy always emanate 
from within outwards, by an increased action in 



ATROPA BELLADONxN'A. 75 

the central organ. Thus, in the exanthemata, as 
soon as the eruption appears, the severe cerebral 
symptoms, the headaches, and general febrile symp- 
toms f caused by the nervous system irritating the 
vascular), disappear. When an exanthematous 
eruption is suppressed, the brain is instantly the 
seat of a violent attack. Belladonna cures only 
those diseases of the splanchnic nervous system, or 
of the abdomen or uterus, in which there is affec- 
tion of the brain. In all the visceral inflammations 
cured by Belladonna, we may safely conclude that 
these diseases were expulsions of inimical agents, 
which originally threatened to attack the cerebral 
nervous system. The same remarks apply to all 
fevers, especially typhus, or the febris nervosa ver- 
satilis" 

" Belladonna is then the specific remedy for the 
cerebral nervous system, especially for the fifth 
pair, and vascular system under the influence of 
this sphere. An inflammation or fever to which 
it is applicable, is accompanied by symptoms pecu- 
liar to the fifth pair, more or less reddened con- 
junctiva, the white of the eye is injected, an un- 
steady or fixed look, distorted features, turges- 
cence of the face, confusion of the head, aching 
pain in the forehead and eyes." 

Speaking of inflammation, Prof. R. Ludlam, 
says, " Belladonna is centric in its operation. It 
diminishes the calibre of the bloodvessels, after 
having just impressed the cerebrospinal centres. 
The capillary contraction, occasioned by its pri- 
mary action, is followed by a relaxation in the 
fibrous coat of the vessels, which corresponds to 



76 ATROPA BELLADONNA. 

Bennett's second stage of inflammation. This 
change from contraction to dilatation is more or 
less marked in degree, and depends upon a diminu- 
tion in the reflex power of the spinal cord, which 
Brown-Sequard says, Belladonna and Ergot may 
occasion. It is due to a disorder in the motor cur- 
rent at its source. The hyperemia results from a 
direct derangement in the function of the vaso-mo- 
tor nerves. In all essential particulars, so far as 
the local tissue is concerned, the consequences do 
not differ from those produced by Aconite. Bat 
in their mode of action, they arc diametrically op- 
posed. And this is the indication to their proper 
therapeutical employment in the treatment of con- 
gestions. Aconite is preferable to Belladonna in 
the congestive stage of most cases of pleurisy and 
pericarditis, because the engorgement is due to 
causes acting concentrically ; the lesion is idiopathic 
The animal nervous centres arc not primarily im- 
plicated as they are by Belladonna. 

"Belladonna reduces the hyperesthesia of the 
nervous system, upon which the congestion is con- 
sequent. It aflfords relief by a removal of the cause 
of the abnormal phenomena. It does not promote 
diaphoresis, is not critical in its results, has no spe- 
cial relation to the emunctories, but is appropri- 
ate to, and exercises a calmative influence over 
the deranged function of reflex action." 

In treating of the action of Belladonna in scarlet 
fever, P. P. Wells, M.D., says: "The pain, intol- 
erance of light, vertigo, insensibility, sleep, convul- 
sions, &c, which characterize the action of Bella- 
donna on the cerebral apparatus, find their coun- 



ATROPA BELLADONNA. 77 

terpart in the symptoms of acute inflammation, 
for the most part of the membranes of the brain, 
or, it may be, of its substance, though this is more 
rare. In the case before us, the brain is not suf- 
fering, as is often thoughtlessly supposed, from in- 
flammation, but from toxication. Xot from exces- 
sive, but from deficient action. Indeed, in all its 
characteristics, it discloses a state as nearly the 
opposite of that produced by the action of Bella- 
donna, as can well be imagined. The drowsiness 
and coma of Belladonna are accompanied by, if not 
the result of, active cerebral congestion, and the 
same is true of the convulsions it produces. Paral- 
ysis from the action of Belladonna, is the result of 
pressure on the brain, either from the accumulation 
of a continuously increasing congestion of this or- 
gan, or of its membranes, or of accumulated serum 
in its ventricles, and between its membranes, in 
the effusion of which a previous congestion has ter- 
minated. Paralysis, in scarlet fever, is only one 
of the manifestations of that loss of brain power 
in general, the sum of which is at once expressed 
by the term 'Paralysis of the Brain.' The loss 
of power in distant parts is the result of loss of 
power in the brain itself." 

Grand Characteristics. 

The primary perception or starting-point of 
the affection is in the brain. 

" Throbbing headache, with violent throb- 
bing of the carotids." — G. 



78 ATROPA BELLADONNA. 

Furious delirium, with a wild look ; wishes 
to strike, bite, or quarrel ; face flushed and 
eyes red. 

" Almost constant moaning ; the child re- 
mains in a drowsy, sleepy state, with starting 
and jumping while sleeping, with flushed face 
and red eyes." — G. 

" Child cries out suddenly, and ceases just 
as suddenly." — G. 

" Pains come on suddenly, and leave just as 
suddenly. ,, — G. 

" The symptoms often come on suddenly and 
disappear with equal suddenness." — G. 

"Clutching pains in the abdomen, as if the 
hand were clawing with the nails. r — G. 

Involuntary diarrhoea and urination, from 
paralysis of the sphincter muscles. 

" Pressure, as though all the contents of the 
abdomen would issue through the genital or- 
gans; this is particularly felt early in the 
morning." — G. 

" Sensation of heat and dryness in the va- 
gina, with stitches." — G. 

" Feeling in the back as if it would break, 
hindering motion." — G. 

Dry, irritating, spasmodic cough. 

" The parts have a hot, dry sensation ; there 
is much throbbing ; they get worse at three in 
the afternoon." — G. 



ATROPA BELLADONNA. 79 

Symptoms all worse, 3 p.m. 

Adapted to plethoric people, with delicate 
skin, and disposed to phlegmonous inflamma- 
tion, and to precocious children with blue eyes 
and fair hair. 

Diseases that affect the right side of the 
body. 

Delirium ; sees frightful figures and visions 
before the eyes. 

Desire to escape, with restlessness and ner- 
vous anxiety. 

" Rage ; tears the clothes, bites, kicks, strikes, 
howls, and shrieks." — Lippe. 

Crying, laughing, dancing, or muttering de- 
lirium, with phantasms. 

Violent congestion of blood to the head, 
with loss of consciousness ; carotids throb vio- 
lently; jugulars swollen; face bloated and red. 

" Vertigo, with vanishing of sight, stupefac- 
tion, and debility." — Lippe. 

When stooping, or rising from a stooping 
posture, has vertigo, with flickering before the 
eyes, and a tendency to fall backward or to the 
left side. 

Throbbing headache, with violent conges- 
tion of blood to the head, and throbbing of the 
carotids ; worse from motion and touch ; light 
and noise are intolerable. 



80 ATROPA BELLADONNA. 

"Child cries suddenly, then ceases to cry 
just as suddenly." — G. 

" Child is drowsy, with much moaning." 
— G. 

" Sleepiness, but cannot sleep." — G. 

" Desires death rather than fears it. v — G. 

Epilepsy from irritation of the medulla ob- 
longata. 

Infantile convulsions, when of an active 
character, and start from the medulla ob- 
longata. 

Neuralgia on the right side of the head and 
face. 

Eyes red, glistening, and sparkling; wild 
and unsteady. 

Congestion of blood to the eyes, with bright 
redness of the vessels. 

Contracted pupils. 

Paralysis of the circular fibres of the iris 
and optic nerve. 

Photophobia. 

Diplopia. 

Distortion, spasms, and convulsions of the 
eyes. 

Things look red ; sees sparks of fire. 

Neuralgia, particularly affecting the right 
eye. 

Face very red and congested, or great pale- 
ness of the face. 



ATROPA BELLADONNA. 81 

Spasmodic distortion of the mouth. 

"Thick, swollen upper lip; gums swollen." 
— H. 

Face swollen, bright red, erysipelatous. 

Toothache of a drawing, tearing nature, 
worse at night; from cold air, mental exertion, 
and from contact. 

Inflammation of the inner mouth, with red- 
ness, and the mucous membrane swollen. 

Tongue hot, dry, red, and cracked ; or red 
on the edges, with brown fur in the centre. 

u Sore throat ; fauces and pharynx deep red, 
soft palate and tonsils swollen ; swallowing 
painful, particularly of fluids; speech thick; 
feels as if there was a lump in the throat, which 
induces hawking; the throat is swollen out- 
side and sensitive to the touch." — C. Hering, 
M.D. 

Great dryness of the fauces ; tonsils bright 
red and swollen. 

Tongue partially paralyzed, right side most 
affected. 

Parotid glands hard, red, and swollen. 

Spasms of the throat, cannot swallow. 

u Pain, particularly in abdomen and pelvis ; 
comes on suddenly, continues violently, a 
longer or shorter time, and disappears as sud- 
denly as it came." — C. Hering, M.D. 

Spasms of the stomach during a meal. 



82 ATROPA BELLADONNA. 

" Tenderness of the abdomen is ag g r a v a ted 
by the least jar, even of the bed or chair upon 
which she lies or sits. She is obliged when 
walking to step with great care for fear of a 
jar." — Hering. 

" Colic in hypogastric region, as from clutch- 
ing and griping with the nails." — G. 

Involuntary discharge of the urine, from 
paralysis of the sphincter vesicae. 

Urine scanty and fiery red. 

Involuntary discharge of the faeces, from 
paralysis of the sphincter ani. 

" Piles, with a feeling as if the back would 
break."— G. 

"Piles so sensitive to the slightest touch 
that the patient has to lie with the nates sep- 
arated." — Raue. 

" Ovaritis of right side" — G. 

"Great pressing in the genital organs, as if 
everything would protrude." — G. 

Spasmodic contraction of the uterus. 

Os uteri rigid, hot, and dry. 

u Vagina hot and dry." — G. 

" Menses too early ; blood bright red." — G. 

Inflammation of the testicles, with great 
hardness. 

" Breasts feel heavy, are very hard, and red- 
ness runs in radii." — G. (Streaks from a 
centre.) 



HYOSCYAMUS NIGER. 83 

Indurated mammae. 

Dry, spasmodic cough ; worse at night and 
by motion. 

Constriction of the trachea. 

" Takes cold from every draft of air, especi- 
ally when uncovering the head; complaints 
from cutting the hair." — Hering. 

All fevers traceable to an invasion of the 
functional powers of the brain itself. 

" Inflammations come suddenly and leave 
suddenly.' , — G. 

" Erysipelas, with smooth, shining skin and 
not much swollen." — Raue. 

"Diseases are usually worse after 3 p.m., 
and again after midnight." — G. 

Eruptions, smooth and scarlet color, with 
very pale face. 

Glands inflamed, swollen and indurated. 

HYOSCYAMUS NIGER. 

Henbane. 

Hyoscyamus acts especially and powerfully upon 
the cerebro-spinal system. It affects the cerebrum 
centrically, like Belladonna and Stramonium, but 
with this difference: u The cerebral condition is 
equally one of excited and perverted function, t. e., 
delirium with hallucinations; but there is little or 
no determination of blood. Hyoscyamus hence 
takes no place in the treatment of those cerebral 
hypersemise for which we rank Belladonna so high. 



84 HYOSCYAMUS NIGER. 

Nor does it reach that height of maniacal disturb- 
ance to which Stramonium is applicable. But in 
delirium of a less violent and inflammatory type, as 
in many cases of delirium tremens ; in the milder 
forms of mental disorders, especially when occur- 
ring in children; and where sleep is restless or too 
dreamful, from simple cerebral excitement, llvos- 
cyamus is a most valuable remedy." — Hughi 

It acts also upon the sympathetic nervous sys- 
tem (slightly) ; post-mortem examinations have 
vealed gastro-intestinal inflammation. It affects 
especially the sphincter muscles, paralyzing their 
action. Hardly ever produces constipation, mostly 
always diarrhoea. It very powerfully influen 
the sexual organs, and from its great value in 
typhoid fever it must have some haematic action. 

Grand Cliaracteristirs. 

Too active condition of the sensorial func- 
tions, with great nervous excitability. 

" Involuntary* loud laughter, with silly 
actions; convulsive trembling." — G. 

" Delirium, with jerking of the limbs, with 
diarrhoea; red face; wild staring look and 
throbbing of the carotids." — G. 

" Twitching and jerking of every muscle of 
the body, eyes, eyelids, face and all." — G. 

"Lascivious furor, without modesty; she 
wishes to uncover and expose herself." — G. 

" Excited sexual desire, without excitement 
of the fancy." — G. 



HYOSCYAMUS NIGER. 85 

"Loud laughter at the approach of the 
menses, with convulsive trembling." — G. 

Involuntary stool. 

" Cough always worse as soon as the patient 
lies down ; relieved by sitting up." — G. 

Adapted to hysterical subjects ; to drunk- 
ards, and people with sanguine temperaments. 

" Wishes to run away for fear of being hurt." 

Severe headache. 

" All objects appear red or larger than they 
really are, or double." — Hempel. 

u Loss of sight and hearing." — Hempel. 

" Entire loss of consciousness ; sees persons 
who are not, and have not been present/' — G. 

" Muttering, with picking at the bed-clothes." 
— G. 

" Giddiness, with stupefaction."- — Hempel. 

" Excessive dilatation of the pupils, with 
complete loss of sensibility to touch. " — Hem- 
pel. 

" Tongue partially paralyzed ; red, brown, 
dry, and cracked. "-^-Hempel. 

" Violent pain in the stomach, with vomit- 
ing and hiccough." — Raue. 

" Violent trembling of the feet and hands 
during menstruation"— ^-G. 

Paralysis of the sphincter ani and vesicas, 
with involuntary stool and urine. 

8 



86 STRAMONIUM. 

" Spasmodic, dry cough, always worse when 
lying down ; relieved by sitting up." — G. 

" Hysteric females and young girls, whose 
bowels are apt to bloat, and who are subject 
to attacks of diarrhoea, with colicky pains, and 
frequent urging to stool, or where the sphinc- 
ters are weak, causing great difficulty in re- 
taining the faeces, and where the least excite- 
ment or mental trouble produces the attack." — 
Hempel. 

STRAMONIUM. 
Thorn Apple* 

Acts especially upon the cerebrospinal system, 

skin, and sexual organs. The power it posse* 
of deranging the sensorium and cerebral nerves, is 
remarkable; it causes more furious delirium than 
Belladonna, but not so much congestion of blood 
to the head, but more congestion than Hyoscyamus 
does. The irritating or neurotic powers of Stramo- 
nium seem almost wholly spent on the sensorium. 
"Functional derangements of the abdominal or- 
gans seem to result from a sympathetic irritation, 
rather than from direct influence of the poison." 

Upon the skin it causes " a fiery redness of the 
whole body, and a petechial rash on the chest and 
back, and likewise upon the lower extremities." 
This eruption is caused by irritation of the spinal 
nerves. 

Upon the sexual organs it causes excessive ex- 
citement, even to nymphomania. 



STRAMONIUM. 87 

Grand Characteristics. 

" Disposed to talk continually." — G. 

" Desires light and company ; worse in the 
dark or in solitude." — G. 

" Imagines all sorts of things ; that she is 
double, lj 7 ing crossways, &c." — G. 

" Child is delirious ; does not know where 
it is ; calls for papa and mamma, although they 
may be present trying to console it." — G. 

Furious delirium. 

" Light of brilliant objects, and contact, re- 
new the spasms." — G. 

%i Awakens with a shrinking look, as if afraid 
of the first object seen." — G. 

" Young men or women who pray, sing, or 
talk so devoutly and constantly, as to excite 
the sympathy of all in the house." — G. 

" Wild thoughts when she is awake ; fright- 
ful sensations, without perspiration." — G. 

" Loquacious delirium, with a desire to escape 
out of bed."— G. 

" Pangs of conscience ; thinks he is not hon- 
est ; does not know his friends ; raves about his 
business." — G. 

" Mock laughter when looking at the picture 
of his father ; face red ; eyes wild, alternating 
with melancholy." — G. 

" Excessive loquacity during the menstrual 



88 STRAMONIUM. 

period; face bloated with blood ; with tears and 
prayers and earnest supplications." — G. 

"All kinds of food taste like straw; in fact 
she has no taste." — G. 

"Nausea with flow of very saltish-tasting 
saliva." — G. 

" Diarrhoea of a cadaverous odor." — ( 1. 

u The urine dribbles away very slowly and 
feebly."— G. 

"Vertigo when walking in the dark, day or 
night; he Staggers and falls down every time 
he attempts to walk. The same when walking 
in a darkened room in the daytime. M — G. 

Muttering delirium, with an extreme degree 
of nervous erethism, trembling convulsions and 
restlessness. 

" Tongue yellowish-brown, and dry on the 
centre, or swelled and dry." — N km ward. 

"Lips sore and cracked, and sordes on the 
teeth." — Neidhard. 

"No desire for water, although the mouth 
is dry." — N. 

Pains are unbearable; drive the patient to 
despair. 

Dilatation of the pupils, with staring eyes. 

Swelling and redness of the eyes. 

Great confusion of sight. 

" The face is bloated with blood."— G. 



opium. 89 

u Troublesome thirst, even with much sa- 
liva."— G. 

Saliva tastes salty. 

" Involuntary discharges of urine ; it drib- 
bles away slowly." — G. 

" Caries of left hip." — IIering. 

" Abscesses, with violent pain, driving one 
mad." — Raue. 

Puerperal fever and nymphomania. 

" Extreme degree of nervous erethism ; con- 
vulsions, trembling, restlessness, &c." — P. P. 
Wells. 

OPIUM. 

Poppy. 

This powerful narcotic expends the most of its 
action on the cerebrospinal system. IsTo drug af- 
fects the cerebral tissues more profoundly. The 
cerebral vessels and sinuses are distended with 
blood of a dark color ; blood becomes extra vasated 
into the substance of the brain, and sometimes 
large clots of coagulated blood have been found in 
the substance of the brain. This direct action of 
Opium upon the neurine cells of the brain is di- 
rectly opposite to the action of Belladonna, for it 
is a fact that one is a complete antidote to the 
other. Poisonous effects of Belladonna produce 
excitement going on to furious delirium. The 
poisonous effects of Opium are, oppression fast 
merging into sopor and coma. Now this gives us 
a clue as to how remedies cure diseases. The rem- 

8* 



90 opium. 

edy must affect the same organ and tissue diseased, 
and it appears from the action r>£ these remedies 
that the dynamic power, or spiritual substance (I 
prefer the latter), of the remedy acta directly op- 
posite to the spiritual substance causing the dis- 
ease. In"ow, in diseases calling for the use of Opium 
we find paralysis, with stupor and deep Bleep; f hese 
symptoms, w^e know, are cured every day by 
Opium; but Opium produces symptoms identical 
with these. Here we find our great law, SitnUia 
Similibus Curantur* Two forces that act on the 
same organ and tissue, producing similar Bymp- 
toms, when acting together annihilate each nth. 
action. 

From the great power ( tpium has of suspending 
the secretions of the mucous membrane, increasing 
the cutaneous Becretions, exciting first, and then 
depressing the circulation, we must conclude thai 
it has a powerful influence upon the ganglionic, 
as well as the cerebrospinal system. 

Pereira says the action of ( tpium upon the di 
tive system is to "diminish secretion and exhala- 
tion from the whole canal ; dryness of the mouth 
and throat; excites thirst ; lessens hunger; checks 
the digestive process ; in Bom< it excites vom- 

iting; diminishes the liquidity of the stools." 
From the great power it has in lead colic, am 
ing the spasmodic pains and restoring the action 
of the mucous exhalants, we must infer that it lias 
a great influence upon the muscular coat of the 
bowels as well as on the mucous coa 

Upon the sexual organs it produces lascivious 



OPIUM. 91 

fancies, nocturnal emissions, and spasmodic labor- 
xins in the female. 

Upon the bladder it paralyzes the muscular fibres 
:>f the fundus, rather than the sphincters. 

Grand Characteristics. 

In all diseases that call for the use of Opium, 
the central difficulty will be found in the brain. 

" Diseases originating in fright, the fear of 
the fright still remaining." — G. 

" Thinks she is not at home ; this is continu- 
ally in her mind." — G. 

" Very sleepy, but cannot go to sleep." — G. 

Brain oppressed; extreme drowsiness, and 
coma, with stertorous breathing. 

" The face is purplish and swollen, with 
soporous sleep, stertorous breathing, and vom- 
iting."— G. 

" Screaming before or during the spasm.' 
— G. 

Profound coma, patient cannot be aroused 
from the stupor. 

" Constipation ; the stools are composed of 
round, hard, black balls." — G. 

" The bed feels so hot she cannot lie on 
it."— G. 

Complete loss of consciousness. 

Patient is very sleepy; lies in a soporous 
state. 



92 opium. 

Patient is profoundly comatose ; pupils in- 
tensely contracted or widely dilated, and in- 
sensible ; face puffed, with dark red or cherry- 
brown appearance ; stertorous breathing; pulse 
full and labored, or slow and feeble. 

Sopor, with delirium ; depression of the 
lower jaw; dilated pupils; and general symp- 
toms of paralysis of the brain. 

" Delirious talking; eyes wide open; face 
red and puffed up." — II. 

" Sleepy, but cannot sleep. " — G. 

" Unrefreshing, soporous sleep, with < 
half open; snoring during inspiration and ex- 
piration." — H. 

Sleeplessness, with acuteness of bearing; 
clocks "striking and cocks crowing at a gne 
distance, keep her awake.' 1 — B. FlNCKB, 

" Drunkenness, with stupor as if from smoke 
in the brain; eyes burning, hot. and dr 
— H. 

" After a fright with fear, convulsions, or 
the head hot, and twitching around the mouth." 
— H. 

"After fright; the fear of the fright still re- 
maining." — G. 

" Continually thinking she is not at home ; 
face purplish and swollen/' — G. 

Sleeplessness, preceded by drowsiness. 

" Gaping after coughing." — H. 



opium. 93 

" Nervous and irritable ; passes nothing but 
hard, black balls from the bowels." — H. 

Constipation ; stools consist of hard, black 
balls. 

" Colic, with great pressure downwards upon 
the rectum and bladder, without any passing 
off of faeces, gas, or urine." — Raue. 

Lead colic and hernia. 

" Child makes no water with full bladder, 
and has no stool ; from nursing after the nurse 
had a furious fit of passion ." — Hering. 

" Paralysis of the muscles of the fundus of 
the bladder, rather than those of the sphincter." 
— Hughes. 

" The skin hot and damp, or sweating, even 
in the morning, and a desire to uncover." — H. 

" Twitching, trembling of the head, arms, 
and hands, now and then ; jerks as if the flex- 
ors were overacting; body cold; inclination 
to stupid sopor ; motion of the body and un- 
covering of the head relieves." — B. 

Coldness of the limbs ; sleepy, but cannot 
sleep from too much blood in the brain. 

" Bed feels so hot cannot lie upon it." — Gr. 

Sudden retrocession of acute eruptions ; pa- 
ralysis of the brain sets in, or convulsions; 
lervousness ; diarrhoea, &c. 

Polypus ; tincture applied externally. 



94 ALCOHOL. 

ALCOHOL. 

Rectified Spirit. 

Acts especially upon the cerebrospinal nervous 
system, great sympathetic nervous system, and the 
blood. 

On the brain, it first produces excitement; jo- 
vial, sympathetic, and sometimes indiscreet; con- 
fusion of thought ; various mental affections, vary- 
ing with individual character ; some become sen- 
timental and affectionate, but the majority become 
quarrelsome, and some murderous in their ferocity. 
Some become depressed and gad, and sit quietly by 
themselves. The imagination and lower impulses 
predominate. The symptoms are followed by- 
drowsiness and sometimes profound coma. At* 
this state of somnolency, there arc vertigo, head- 
ache, stupidity, nausea, and vomiting. In some 
cases the stupor is followed by great cerebral excite- 
ment; the face becomes Hushed; eyes injected; 
great restlessness; violent delirium; pulse accel- 
erated, with fever of a typhoid character. Tn other 
cases, it develops a tendency to congestive apo- 
plexy ; the coma soon becomes profound ; face livid, 
or ghastly pale; pupils contracted, more generally 
dilated ; breathing stertorous, and death takes 
place in a few hours. 

Pathological Changes. — The scalp and membranes 
of the brain are congested ; serous effusion occurs 
under the arachnoid ; the substance of the brain is 
usually white and firm; the ventricles generally 
empty. " The peculiar firmness of the brain was 



ALCOHOL. 95 

noticed several times, even when decomposition of 
the rest of the body had made considerable advance. 
Typhus fever is the only disease, save induration 
of the brain, in which a like firmness is often ob- 
served.*' The cerebrum and cerebellum both be- 
come indurated, and sometimes softened. The cere- 
bral arteries are in a state of fatty degeneration. 

Nerves of Motion. — Are especially affected, as seen 
in the stammering speech ; staggering gait ; dimin- 
ished strength, from relaxation of the muscular 
system ; trembling of the hands and arms ; trem- 
bling motion of the muscles under the skin, and 
partial paralysis. 

Nerves of Sensation. — There is hyperesthesia or 
anesthesia ; has to move the limbs constantly, from 
a great feeling of restlessness ; formication under 
the skin, and drawing, piercing pains. 

Great Sympathetic Nervous System. — The chronic 
effects of Alcohol upon this part of the nervous 
system, " are evinced more by the alterations in 
structure and functions of the various organs of 
the chest, abdomen, and pelvis, than by any par- 
ticular sensations ;" more rapid digestion ; peri- 
staltic action of the bowels increased ; increased se- 

1 cretions ; fatty degeneration of the heart and liver, 
which sometimes are much enlarged ; the omentum 
and mesentery become loaded with fat. The stom- 
ach becomes congested, and greatly wrinkled, as 
if a powerful astringent had been taken ; in some, 
the mucous membrane is perfectly white and thick- 
ened ; in others, it becomes softened and covered 

| with a copious muco-purulent secretion. The ap- 



96 ALCOHOL. 

petite is at first increased, but becomes in a short 
time less and less in proportion as the taste for 
drink increases. The tongue becomes furrowed 
from the median line towards the edges, and looks 
as if varnished. In the morning the throat seems 
filled with mucus, and gradually it becomes more 
and more difficult to clear, and the victim has 
nausea and vomiting every morning, with a long 
train of dyspeptic symptoms ; in some cases the 
bowels become much irritated, and there is colic, 
acidity, flatulence, constipation, or alternate cone 
pationand diarrhoea. The kidneys become more or 
less congested; the pelvis and ureter- are gener- 
ally in a state of chronic slate-^ray inflammation. 

The skin at tir>t is Bofl and velvety, but gradu- 
ally changes and becomes dry, dirty, rigid or yel- 
lowish-gray, and there are more or Less prurigo, 
eczema, &c. 

The blood becomes fluid and venous, and the 
proportion of carbon and hydrogen is much in- 
creased; contains mueh albumen and fat, but little 
fibrin, which accounts for its non-coagulability ; 
blood-globules are diminished. 

Grand Characteristics. 

Tweedie says : " I. It sometimes happens 
that when a patient in fever has been going on 
favorably, the pulse becomes suddenly soft and 
compressible, the skin cool and damp, accom- 
panied by a feeling of considerable exhaustion ; 
with these symptoms, there need be little hesi- 



ALCOHOL. 97 

tation in allowing six or eight ounces of wine 
in twenty-four hours, at proper intervals. 

" II. When the symptoms denoting sensorial 
disturbance, languor, low muttering, delirium, 
tremor, or subsultus, progressively increase, if 
at the same time, the patient lose his strength 
from day to day> the pulse soft and skin cool. 

"III. When the fever assumes the petechial 
character, more especially if the spots be large 
and of a dark livid hue. 

"IV. In cases of sudden and unexpected 
collapse." 

Coma, with stertorous breathing. 

" Melancholy, with inclination to suicide." 
—P. 

u Mania, with inclination to murder." — P. 

" Mania, with inclination to incendiarism." 
—P. 

" Maniacal ferocity." — P. 

" Mania, with excessive inclination to drink." 
—P. 

Dementia. 

Eyes congested (bloodshot). 

" Hallucination of sight ; sees double, or 
thinks he sees a variety of objects; men, ani- 
mals, snakes, good or bad spirits, angels, or de- 
mons." This shows that Alcohol profoundly af- 
fects that portion of the brain that gives origin 
to the optic nerve. 

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98 ALCOHOL. 

" Hallucination of smell ; imagines the devil 
has defiled his bed, and that it smells as the 
devil is supposed to do." 

" Great dryness of the mouth." 

Hallucinations of taste. 

Throat seems full of mucus, which is 
hawked up with difficulty. 

" Morning nausea and vomiting." 

Gagging and vomiting of sour, offensive mat- 
ter. 

Loss of appetite. 

Difficult digestion, with colic and flatus. 

Constipation, or alternation of constipation 
and diarrhoea. (See Nux Vomica,) 

Adiposis and venosis ; fatty state of the 
heart, and adiposis in general, in gouty and 
rheumatic subjects. 

Dr. Peters thinks it is more or leal antag- 
onistic to tuberculosis; in cases where there is 
great emaciation it may supply the fat ; it only 
aids in developing adipose, never muscular 
tissue. 

Alcohol as a remedy, and as a nutritious 
substance : — It especially arrests destructive as- 
similation, " so that for a certain period, during 
the stay of alcohol in the system, less urea, 
less phosphates, less water are excreted by the 
kidneys, less carbonic acid by the lungs, and 



ALCOHOL. 99 

less digestion goes on in the alimentary canal, 
showing that the muscles, bones, nerves, &c, 
are not getting rid of their effete tissue, but re- 
taining it, and making use of it as far as possi- 
ble." 

" But at the same time, they give rise in the 
body to defensive reaction, which is prominent 
first, immediately after taking the dose, and 
then gives place to the special action, and on 
this ceasing, is again manifested to greater ex- 
tent." 

" So that if a suitable quantity be taken, and 
both action and reaction are allowed to exhaust 
themselves before the dose be repeated," there 
will be a positive gain in vitality; " but if such 
a large quantity be taken that the reaction is 
overpowered, or if the manifestation of life is 
kept down by continuous repetition of the dose, 
the body is not renewed, because its effete par- 
ticles are not removed, and the amount of vi- 
tality must certainly be reckoned at a loss." 

A distinguished politician, who suffered from 
the effect of habitual intoxication, thus de- 
scribes it: "In that world of all that is high 
and noble, the human heart ; that consecrated 
temple of glorious hopes and generous purposes, 
and godlike aspirations and countless joys, 
known only to the heart of man, the alcoholic 
poison breaks up the fountains of the great deep 



100 CHLOROFORM — SULPHURIC ETHER. 

of human passion, and converts the mind into 
a wild distorted receptacle of passions, lashed 
into monstrous and phantom forms, by flames, 
which distil the fountains of human love 
and charity, and chastity, and kindness, into 
the red lava of hell's w T orst hate. And that 
bright principle of the human intellect, which 
comprehends the laws that govern the universe 
and our own mysterious being, instead of being 
blotted out in darkness, is transformed into the 
wild architect of a world distorted and ideal, 
peopled with fiends, such as perverted minds 
alone can conceive, and fraught with sufferings 
and agonies, for which breathing nature fur- 
nishes no type or parallel." 



CHLOROFORM. 

C 2 1KC1, 

This acts upon the cerebrospinal nervous system, 
producing anaesthesia, with rapid muscular relax- 
ation and insensibility, and is the best anaesthetic 
known. 

SULPHURIC ETHER. 
2C,H 5 C1 5 0,S 2 6 . 

This also affects especially the cerebrospinal 
axis, producing anaesthesia, the insensibility Uu 
ing longer than that caused by chloroform. Also 
produces greater muscular relaxation in the last 
stage. 



QLONOINE. 101 

§ GLONOINE. 

Nitro-Glycerine. 

This powerful remedy acts especially on the cere- 
bral bloodvessels, medulla oblongata, and pneumo- 
gastric nerve. 

Xo remedy produces so quickly and so violently 
such a severe congestive, throbbing, bursting head- 
ache, with increased action of the heart and arte- 
ries, and sometimes nausea and vomiting. How 
does it produce this effect? I believe mainly 
through the ganglionic plexuses of nerves that en- 
twine round the cerebral arteries and control their 
action. Dr. Hughes differs from this ; he says, " I 
think that the phenomena of both head and heart 
can be accounted for by supposing that Glonoine 
acts as a direct sedative upon the medulla oblongata. 
From this centre come off the vagi, to whose de- 
pression we have referred the cardiac symptoms 
of the drug. Through the medulla oblongata also 
(according to Schiff's observations), the vaso-motor 
nerves of the brain proper can be excited or para- 
lyzed. The same sedative influence of Glonoine, 
therefore, upon this nervous centre, would, through 
the vagi, set the heart off palpitating, and through 
the vascular nerves, would dilate the cerebral ar- 
teries, so as to give us the phenomena I have de- 
scribed." If Schiff's observations are correct, Dr. 
Hughes is also. 

Prof. Hempel says, " Repeated experiments 
would seem to show that ^itro-glycerine acts upon 
the medulla oblongata, and that the symptoms of 

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102 GLONOINE. 

cerebral congestion which it occasions are depend- 
ing upon a momentary irritation of this great 
nervous centre. The pneumogastric nerve is in- 
volved in its disturbing influence." 

Grand Characteristics. 

Intense congestion of blood to the head, 
with a feeling as if the temples and top of the 
head would burst open. 

Violent, throbbing headache. 

Vertigo; fainting, with violent throbbing of 
the temporal arteries. 

Congestive, nervous headache, with no gas- 
tric or bilious symptoms. 

"It has proved the great remedy for sun- 
stroke." — Hughes. 

" It has checked puerperal convulsion* where 
cerebral hyperemia was prominent" — II. 

"It is a capital remedy for the disturbance 
of the intracranial circulation, which obtains 
in menopausia, and for that which often results 
from menstrual suppression.' 1 — Hughes. 

"Nervous palpitation, of emotional origin." 
— Hughes. 

Has acted well in some cases of neuralgia. 

This remedy ought to prove valuable in apo- 
plexy and epilepsy. 

Marcy and Hunt say it is homoeopathic to 



AGARICUS MUSCARIUS. 103 

no disease without it has its origin in the nerve- 
mass. 

It produces intense throbbing pains in the 
epigastrium. 



AGARICUS MTJSCARIUS. 

Fly-agaric. 

Especially affects the cerebro-spinal nervous sys- 
tem and the blood. Upon the cerebro-spinal sys- 
tem it produces giddiness and drunkenness, similar 
to Alcohol ; at last, an entire loss of consciousness 
takes place. The spinal cord is also especially af- 
fected ; the motor nerves show chorea-like twitch- 
ings ; " the sensory nerves lose their elasticity and 
power of resistance ; when even feeble pressure is 
applied to any spot, it pains still a long while after. 
Neuralgic pains as though sharp ice touched the 
parts or cold needles ran through the nerves ; com- 
pare with the Arsenic neuralgia, in which the 
imaginary needles are red-hot." (Hughes.) The 
spine is tender to the touch, especially the lumbar 
portion. 

But the most peculiar effect of Agaricus is its 
septic influence upon the blood, and the power the 
urine has of producing intoxication. The blood 
becomes fluid ; the brain, lungs, and liver being 
gorged with this fluid blood. " During life, too, 
there are many symptoms of septic change ; the 
face is blue ; the body swells ; the breath, flatus, 
and stools are fetid." 

" A man moderately intoxicated to-day, will, by 



104 AGARICUS MUSCARIUS. 

the next morning, have slept himself sober ; but, 
as is the custom, by drinking a teacupful of his 
urine he will be more powerfully intoxicated than 
he was the preceding day. This intoxicating 
property of the urine is capable of being propa- 
gated; for every one who partakes of this intoxi- 
cating urine, has his own urine similarly affected." 
I have no doubt but a microscopical examination 
of the urine and blood of one who lias been poisoned 
with the Agaricus, would reveal thousands of 
fungi in it, capable of reproducing themselves with 
great rapidity, similar to yeast. 

Grand Characteristic** 

" Itching, burning, and redness of the toes, 
with titillatlOD as if frozen. n — (i. 

"Gastric derangement, with itching, burn- 
ing, and redness of various parts of the body, 
as if frost-bitten ; of the ears. nose, cheeks, fin- 
gers, and toes." — G. 

" Much hunger, but no appetite." — (i. 

" Abundance of flatulence." — G. 

"Constipation; first part very hard, latter 
part liquid." — G. 

"Menses too profuse, with titillation in the 
genital organs and desire for an embrace." — G. 

" Great selfishness." — G. 

Frequent nictitation of the eyelids. 

Chilblains itch and burn much, and are 
very red. 



GICUTA VIROSA. 105 

Great chilliness in the open air, striking 
through the whole body, without thirst. 

Worse during the approach of a thunder- 
storm. 

Hysterical subjects, with spasmodic jerkings 
of different muscles of the body. 

It ought to be useful in delirium tremens, 
venous congestions, and in septic diseases. 

CICUTA VIROSA. 

Water Hemlock, 

Especially affects the brain and spinal cord, pro- 
ducing tetanic spasms, but differing from the tet- 
anus caused by Nux, by the brain being more 
affected. 

Prof. Hempel thinks, " that its irritating action 
upon the solar plexus is the first cause of these con- 
vulsions." The medulla oblongata is also greatly 
irritated by this poison. It also affects the skin. 

Grand Characteristics. 

"The letters seem to move about when read- 
ing."— G. 

" Convulsions, with contortions of the upper 
part of the body and limbs : with blue face and 
frequent interruptions of breathing for a few 
• moments." — G. 

" The child seems well, and in great spirits, 
when suddenly it becomes rigid, then relaxa- 
tion sets in with much prostration." — G. 



106 GYMNOCLADUS CANADENSIS — CAMPHORA. 

" Violent shocks through the head, arms, and 
legs, which cause them to jerk suddenly." — G. 

" Violent vertigo, so that the patient falls 
down." — Hempel. 

" During the menstrual molimina, has tear- 
ing, jerking pains in the os coccygis." — G. 

" Spasmodic hiccough in cholera." — Hughes. 

" Thick, whitish scurfs appear on the chin 
and upper lip ; they secrete a dampness ; some- 
times affects the nose." — G. 



GYMNOCLADUS CANADENSIS. 

American I 'offi < T 

Acts upon the cerebro-spinal nervous system. 

Grand Cha rartrristics. 

" One-fourth of all the symptoms are on the 
left side, and only one-twelfth on the right." — 
Hering. 

" Hard, racking cough, increasing from morn- 
ing to night." — H. 

Useful in typhoid fevers, erysipelas of the 
face, scarlet fever, hives, &c. 

CAMPHORA. 

Laurus Camphora. 

Acts upon the cerebro-spinal system, ganglionic 
nervous system, and genito-urinary organs. 



CAMPHORA. 107 

Upon the sensorium it causes vertigo, confusion of 
ideas, maniacal delirium, convulsions, frothing at 
the mouth, and insensibility ; when reaction sets in, 
there is great heat and vascular excitement in the 
head. 

Upon the ganglionic system, "the primary action 
of Camphor seems to be characterized by a depres- 
sion of vitality ; sinking of the pulse ; decrease of 
animal heat ; relaxation of the mucous membranes, 
and diminution of power in those nervous trunks 
which are specifically affected by Camphor. The 
coldness and torpor which Camphor causes in the 
stomach and bowels are characteristic of its primary 
action upon the mucous coating of those viscera.'' — 
Hempel. 

These primary effects are of very short duration, 
which are soon followed by organic reaction, with 
hard bounding pulse ; burning heat of the skin ; 
red face ; heat in the stomach and bowels ; much 
anxiety and restlessness. 

Upon the genital organs its primary effect is im- 
potence, with coldness and relaxation of the parts. 

It causes inflammation of the urinary organs, 
and suppression of urine. 

Its greatest usefulness appears to be for its pri- 
mary symptoms, that is, its chill-producing power. 

Grand Characteristics. 

Sudden and complete prostration of the vital 
forces, with great coldness of the external sur- 
face. 



108 CAMPHORA. 

Long-lasting chills. 

" Great coldness of the skin, yet the child 
cannot bear to be covered." — G. 

" Extremities cold and blue, with cram; 
— G. 

" Skin cold as marble, yet the child cannot 
bear to be covered ; rattling in the throat ; hot 
breath."— G. 

" Sometimes those cold spells only come on 
at night and pass off in the morning, with 
much prostration and diarrhoea. 91 — G. 

u Urine emitted slowly, the bladder being 
nearly paralyzed." — (1. 

"Red urine, depositing a thick sediment." 
— G. 

" Retention of urine, with constant pressure 
on the bladder, and desire to urinate." — G. 

Strangury from Cantharis poison. 

"Her labor pains have ceased, and her skin 
is cold and blue." — G. 

Especially adapted to choleraic diseases, and 
to the first stages of catarrhal affections. 

" Throbbing pains in the cerebellum, like 
the pounding of a hammer ; synchronous with 
the beats of the heart." — Raue. 

" Features distorted ; eyes sunken ; face, 
hands, and feet, icy cold; great anguish, 
though he would suffocate; half stupid and 
senseless ; groans and moans in hoarse, husky 



ZIZIA A UREA. 109 

voice ; burning in the stomach and oesopha- 
gus ; cramps; touching the stomach causes him 
to cry out ; great faintness and prostration." — 
Raue. 

" No thirst, no nausea ; no vomiting, no di- 
arrhoea, with cramps in the legs." — Raue. 

" Retention of urine, or it is discharged in 
small quantities ; deep red, and depositing a 
thick sediment." 

u Sometimes the urine is green." — G. 

Strangury, not relieved by urinating, espe- 
cially if it is caused by Cantharis. 

" Impotence, with coldness, weakness and 
atrophied condition of the sexual organs, in 
large doses." — Hempel. 

Suffocative catarrh, with paralysis of the 
lungs, from its paralyzing effect upon the 
pneumogastric nerve ; first stage. 

Sudden retrocession of eruptions, with cold 
skin and great prostration. 

" Epilepsy, with much congestion of the 
brain." — Marcy and Hunt. 

ZIZIA ATTREA. 

Golden Alexander. 

Acts especially upon the brain, spinal cord, and 
pneumogastric nerve. 

Its characteristics are unknown, but it is a pow- 
erful remedy, and will some day be very useful 

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110 CUPRUM. 

It is adapted to many nervous diseases, such as 
epilepsy, neuralgia, sick headache, hypochondria, 
&c. 

CUPRUM. 

Copper. 

Affects the cerebrospinal system, and especially 
the great sympathetic nervous centn 

Prof. Hempel says: " A careful study of the act 
of Copper upon the cerebrospinal axis seems to show 
that Copper affects the ganglionic centres and the 
medulla oblongata, but doc- aot act primarily upon 
the cerebrum in such a manner as to justify its em- 
ployment in meningitis, hydrocephalus, typhus, and 
other cerebral diseases, upon homoeopathic prin- 
ciples." The cerebral By nipt on is, although strongly 
marked, are secondary or sympathetic, from irrita- 
tion of the abdominal ganglionic nervous <vntr- 
this reflex action from the brain may disturb every 
function in the living organism. 

It seems to irritate the pnetu ric nerve in 

a special manner, so as to produce nausea and vom- 
iting in every case of poisoning. 

It produces gastric irritation and inflammation 
of almost all the abdominal viscera ; the stools are 
more like dysentery than like those of cholera ; 
but in cholera, accompanied with violent cran 
in the extremities, it is one of the most reliable 
remedies we have. 

Grand Characteristics. 

Spasms, with nausea and violent vomiting 
of frothy mucus. 



CUPRUM. Ill 

" When drinking, the fluid descends with a 
gurgling noise." — G. 

Drinking cold water relieves the vomiting. 

" Sensation as if something bitter was in the 
stomach." — G. 

Violent cramps and spasms. 

Diseases caused by the suppression of foot- 
sweat. 

Adapted to neurotic diseases and to light- 
haired people. 

Shrieks from fear ; anxiety. 

Cold face ; blue lips ; coldness all over. 

Face earthy, dirty bluish color. 

" Roof of mouth always red." — Raue. 

Nausea and violent vomiting, with cramps 
in the stomach and extremities, with violent 
diarrhoea. 

Deathly feeling, with pain behind the ensi- 
form cartilage. 

" Stools black ; copious and painful or bloody, 
with tenesmus and weakness." — Hale. 

Suppression of urine. 

Convulsions, with fearful cries. 

Cataleptic when coughing. 

Opisthotonos. 

" Long-continued paroxysms of convulsive 
coughing, with vomiting of mucus; blue face 
and lips?''— G. 



112 CANNABIS INDICA. 

" Sudden attacks of dyspnoea unto suffoca- 
tion." 

Metastasis of the eruption (of scarlatina 
the brain, with vomiting and spasms. 

"Paralysis of the brain, when caused In a 
process of metaschematismus, an irritation of 
the cerebral substance having been superin- 
duced by the sudden retrocession of some acute 
eruption, or some other disorder that required 
Copper at first." — IIempel. 

CANNABIS INDICA. 

Indian II 

The brain is peculiarly affected by this remedy ; 
it also affects the genito-orinary organa 

Grand Characteristics. 

Violent burning in the urethra during and 
after micturition. 

Catalepsy. 

Adapted to diseases of drunkards, of a neu- 
rotic character, and to urinary dia 

" The characteristics of the intoxication it 
produces seem to be exaggeration of all percep- 
tions and conceptions ; aphrodisia and ten- 
dency to catalepsy." — Hughes. 

It is one of our great remedies in gonorrhoea. 



COFFEA CRUDA. 113 

COFFEA CRUDA. 

Arabian Coffee. 

Acts upon the cerebrospinal system, sexual sys- 
tem, sphincter muscles, vascular system, urinary 
organs, and lungs. 

Upon the brain it produces vertigo ; so dizzy that 
she could not stand ; depression of spirits ; delirium 
tremens ; headache, as if a nail had been driven 
into the brain, &c. ; but it is upon the sentient 
nervous system that Coffea spends most of its ac- 
tion. Stapf says the primary effects of Coffea are 
"a pathological excitation of all the organic func- 
tions. When Coffea acts moderately upon the 
healthy organism, the irritability of the organs of 
sense is morbidly increased, the visual power be- 
comes more acute, the hearing more sensitive, the 
taste is finer, the sensorium is more vivid (hence 
increased susceptibility to pain), the mobility of 
the muscles is increased, the sexual desire is more 
excited ; even the nervous activity of the digestive 
and secretive organs is increased ; hence a morbid 
sensation of excessive hunger, increased desire and 
facility of the alvine evacuations and of the emis- 
sions of urine. To what an extent the nervous 
and animal activity of the organism is increased 
by Coffea, appears from the sleeplessness which it 
excites in various shades and degrees; from the 
peculiar pathological excitation of the mind and 
soul ; and from the febrile warmth which it excites 
to a considerable degree." 

Prof. Lehman says, " Coffea increases the ac- 

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114 COFFEA CRUDA. 

tivity of the vascular and nervous systems, while 
at the same time it retards the metamorphosis of 
plastic constituents." 

Prof. Hempel says, "It excites the circulation, 
stinging and smarting on the skin ; increased fre- 
quency, although proportionate diminution, in the 
volume of the pulse. A sort of vascular orgasm, 
flushes of heat, and transitory flushes in the t'a 
According to Lehnian.it M causes violent excite- 
ment of the vascular and nervous systems, palpi- 
tation of the heart, extraordinary frequency, in 
ularity, and often intermission of the pulse, oppres- 
sion of the chest, pains in the head, confusion of 
the senses, singing in the ears, scintillations bef 
the eyes, Bleepl ions, and delirium/ 1 

Upon the Sexual v It first e 

powerfully the sexual instinct, producing sexual 
dreams and nocturnal emissions, followed by gn 
prostration of the whole nervous m. The fe- 

male sexual organs are also excited in the same 
manner. 

Upon the Urinary Organs it generally produces 

an increased secretion of watery urine. In one 
case of poisoning it produced an almost entire re- 
tention of urine, with continual and painful urg- 
ing, only passing a few drops of urine at a time; 
this case was really inflammatory irritation of the 
bladder. 

Upon the Lungs. — It causes spasmodic constric- 
tion of the kings and larynx, with dry hacking 
cough, and sometimes asthmatic breathing. 



COFFEA CRUDA. 115 

Grand Characteristics. 

The pains are insupportable; feels them 
most intensely ; cannot bear to be touched, the 
parts are so sensitive. 

* She is in a state of ecstasy." — G. 

" Inflammation induced by excessive joy." 
— G. 

11 Great sensitiveness, with general excita- 
bility."— G. 

" Ecstasy; full of ideas; quick to act; no 
sleep on that account." — G. 

" The physical system seems exalted and 
almost transported by the mental exaltation." 
— G. 

"Child cries easily ; while crying it suddenly 
laughs quite heartily, and finally cries again." 
— G. 

Extreme wakefulness. 

u Headache, as if a nail were driven into 
the brain, or as if the brain were torn or dashed 
to pieces." — G. 

u Exceedingly painful colic, so painful as to 
drive her to desperation." — G. 

" Excessive sensitiveness about the vulva, 
with voluptuous itching ; would like to rub and 
scratch the part, but it is too sensitive." — G. 

Adapted to neurotic diseases, in people with 
a nervous or sanguine temperament, especially 
if the disease has been caused by excessive joy. 



116 COFFEA CRUDA. 

" Headache, as if a nail were driven into 
the brain; worse in the open air." — HAHNE- 
MANN. 

"All the senses are rendered more acute; 
reads fine print easily; hearing, smell, taste, 
and touch acute ; particularly also an increased 
perception of slight passive motion." — HerING. 

Head feels too small. (Opposite to Nux 
vomica. — F.) 

" Excessive wakefulness. n — G. 

"Headache, as if the head would fly to 

pieces; aggravated by noise and light" — G. 

"Ice or ice-cold water is the only thing that 
lessens his violent toothache as long as touch- 
ing it," — Hale. 

"Toothache, especially at night}" — Tests. 

" Excessive dryness of the month at night." 
— Teste. 

" Loss of taste." — Teste. 

" Burning, sour eructations." — T 

" Violent, spasmodic eructations, with rising 
of the ingesta." — Teste. 

"Tension of the epigastric region, with sen- 
sitiveness to the touch." — Teste. 

"Colic, so painful as to drive the patient 
mad."— G. 

"Constant alternations of constipation and 
diarrhoea." — Teste. 




COFFEA CRUDA. 117 

" Spasmodic contraction of the sphincter, 
with burning and itching in the anus." — Teste. 

The genital organs of both male and female 
are greatly excited by Coffea. 

Nocturnal emissions, followed by great lan- 
guor and irritability. 

Great sensitiveness of the female genital 
organs ; cannot bear to have them touched, 
they are so sensitive. 

" Genital organs itch voluptuously and are 
very sensitive." — G. 

" Aversion to sexual intercourse in women, 
it is so painful." — Teste. 

" Leucorrhoea of mucus, and sometimes 
blood."— G. 

" Profuse menstruation, with excessive sen- 
sitiveness of the organs and voluptuous itch- 
ing."-G. 

" Labor pains insupportable to her feelings ; 
she feels them intensely ; w^eeps and laments 
fearfully." — G. 

•■ Measly spots on the skin, with dry heat 
at night; over-excitability and weeping." — 
Hering. 

Continual inclination to cough ; feels ex- 
hausted after coughing. 

" Sensation of rawness in the windpipe." — 
Teste. 



118 TABACUM. 

" Dry hacking, with constant tickling in the 
larynx." — Teste. 

" Spasmodic cough, like whooping-cough, 
with this difference, that the spasms are prin- 
cipally experienced during the inspirations, 
not the expirations." — Teste. 

"Constriction of the chest; asthma at night. n 
— Teste. 

"Tearing pains in the flesh and cellular tis- 
sue, rather than in the bones; in the parts be- 
tween the articulations themselves." — Teste. 

"The free use of strong Coffea is a specific 
for gout and rheumatisms, where there is a 
disposition to the formation of chalkstones in 
the joints. " — Dr. W. HAMILTON. 

u Trembling of the hands, with heat in the 
palms and coldness of the backs of the hands." 
— Teste. 

"Affections after sudden emotions, particu- 
larly pleasant surprises." — IIering. 

TABACUM. 

Tobacco* 

Acts especially on the cerebrospinal cent 
More particularly affecting the medulla oblongata 

and pneumogastric nerve. The motor nerves that 
preside over the muscular Bystem are perfectly and 
completely paralyzed; in fact, nicotine, the active 
principle of Tobacco, produces the most profound 



SOLANUM NIGRUM. 119 

and complete relaxation of the muscular system of 
any poison we possess. 

Grand Characteristics. 

Adapted to diseases originating in cerebral 
irritation, followed by prominent gastric symp-. 
toms. 

Sick headache, that comes on early in the 
morning, and by noon is intolerable; with 
deathly nausea and violent vomiting, greatly- 
aggravated by noise and light. 

Dreadful faint feeling at the stomach. 

Icy coldness ; cold sweat and intermittent 
pulse. 

State of collapse, as in cholera. 

Strangulated hernia ; ileus ; complete ma- 
rasmus ; paralysis, and sudden hypera?mia of 
the brain, with violent nausea; vomiting and 
great prostratian. 

" Violent pain in the small of the back 
during soft stool, with tenesmus and burning." 

SOLANUM NIGRUM. 

Garden Nightshade. 

This remedy affects the S3~stem very similarly to 
Belladonna, and ought to be valuable in cerebral 
congestions, scarlatina, cerebro-spinal meningitis, 
and many spasmodic diseases. 

The Solanum lycopersicon, Tomato, is a valua- 



120 AILANTHUS GLANDULOSA. 

ble remedy, used as a poultice for whitlow (felon) 
and furuncles (boils). 

AETHUSA CYNAPIUM. 

Fool's Par slcij. 

Acts upon the cerebrospinal system and liver. 
The first action of the poison is directed to that 

portion of the brain which controls the functi 
of the liver, giving rise to bilious disorganizations 
of a most profound nature. It ought to he one of 
our best remedies in dig of the liver, with 

prominent cerebral symptoms. 

LACHNANTES TINCTORIA. 
Spirit Weed* 

Acts upon the cerebrospinal system* 

This narcotic bids fair to be a wry useful remedy 
in many nervous, typhoid, and pneumonic diseases, 
where the brain is prominently involved. 

"Stiff neck; the head is drawn to one side 
(after diphtheria, scarlet fever)" — (a charac- 
teristic). — Lippe. 

AILANTHUS GXANDTJLOSA. 

Tree of Heart i>. 

Acts especially upon the cerebrospinal axis, 
pneumogastric nerve, and especially the skin. 

This powerful poison ought to prove one of our 
greatest remedies in scarlet rash, erysipelas, and 






AILANTHUS GLANDULOSA. 121 

many cerebral diseases. Its characteristics are un- 
known, but I will give some of its prominent symp- 
toms. 

Severe headache, with dizziness, and hot, 
red face. 

Very drowsy and restless, which soon passes 
into insensibility, with constant muttering de- 
lirium. 

Great anxiety. 

Intolerance of light. 

Inability to sit up, with sudden and violent 
vomiting. 

Covered with a miliary rash, with efflores- 
cence between the points of the rash ; all of a 
dark, almost livid color. The eruption more 
profuse on the forehead and face than else- 
where. 

The pulse small, and so rapid as hardly to 
be counted. 

"The livid color of the skin, when pressed 
out by the finger, returned very slowly; the 
whole was a most complete picture of torpor, 
and seemingly a perfect instance of that mani- 
festation of it which immediately precedes dis- 
solution in these rapidly fatal cases of scarlet 
fever."— P. P. Wells, M.D. 



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122 NUX VOMICA. 



GROUP III. 



Nux vomica, 


Coni urn. 


Strychnine, 


Curare, 


Ignatia, 


Angostura, 


Cocculus, 


Aesculus. 



This group constitutes our true spinal remedies. 
They produce, primarily^ irritation and congestion 
of the spinal cord and its membranes; secondarily, 

depression, paralysis, and BOftening. To this group 
really belongs Hydrocyanic acid, tmt I thought it 

better to place the acids all in one group. 

NUX VOMICA. 

Strychnos Nuz V 

Xux vomica and its alkaloid. Strychnia, act 
pecially upon the spinal cord. The primary eti 
being first upon the sentient nerves, through which 

it is carried to the spinal cord, and reflected back 
upon the motor nervous system. 

Also affects the cerebellum, slightly the cere- 
brum; the medulla oblongata and nervo-muscular 
tissue of the bowels, and lastly, the sexual organs. 

Marshall Hall, M. Brown-Sequard, and M. Bon- 
nefin, have shown, against the opinion of MM. 
Bernard and Stannius, that Strychnine tetanus re- 
sults from the primitive augmentation of the exei- 



NUX VOMICA. 123 

lability of the cord ; and we think that the experi- 
ments, in which we have directly poisoned the 
cord, leave no doubt in this regard. 

Traumatic tetanus exhibits, usually, the perma- 
nent contraction of a certain number of muscles, 
with exacerbation to general convulsions; the 
strvchnic tetanus exhibits, usually, convulsions, in 
the intervals of which, all the muscles are in re- 
pose, and they enter into contraction again, only 
after some external excitement has provoked a 
fresh crisis. It is intelligible, from the peripheric 
character of traumatic tetanus, that a topical agent, 
which paralyzes the sensitive extremities of nerves, 
applied directly on the wound, in the first period 
of the malady, may cure this, without affording a 
presumption as to the cure of strychnic tetanus. 
But even if it should cure both, that would not 
prove the antagonism asserted between Curare and 
Xux vomica. AVe have the similitude of their 
action, in the facts that they both diminish the 
excitability of the extremities, and increase that 
of the cord. 

Strychnine, in general, acts upon the cord with 
more intensity than Curare, and Curare upon the 
extremities with more intensity than Strychnine. 
Such is the shade of difference which we arrive at 
by varying the dose or the mode of administration. 

John King, M.D., says : " Xux vomica is an ener- 
getic poison, exerting its influence chiefly upon the 
cerebrospinal system ; it is supposed to affect the 
spinal cord principally, because the division of this 
cord does not prevent its poisonous influence ; and 
again when the cord is destroyed by the introduc- 



124 NUX VOMICA. 

tion of a piece of whalebone into the spinal canal, the 
convulsions immediately cease. In poisonous doe 
Kux vomica produces violent tetanic convulsio 
without impairing the functions of the brain, with 
asphyxia and death. When given in doses suili- 
ciently large to influence the system, a sensation 
of heaviness is experienced, the spirits become de- 
pressed, the limbs tremble, and a slight rigidity or 
stiffness comes on when attempting to move. Fre- 
quently the person cannot stand erect | h< 
and if at this time he be suddenly tapped on the 
ham, while standing, a slight convulsive attack 
will often ensue, with an Inability to stand. In 

the most severe paroxysms caused by this medi- 
cine, the patient retains his mental faculties, and 

the slightest noise, or even a breath of wind pa 

ing Over him, will excite eonvu cry 

time these occur; somet iincs Budden starts resem- 
bling shocks of electricity aria 

It is not necessary that Strychnine should reach 
the organs through the circulation to produce 
effects. "The encephalon and medulla oblongata 
being exposed, and a solution of Strychnine intro- 
duced within the vertebral canal, the animal is s< 
seized with convulsions, persisting longer in a limb 
of which the circulation is interrupted, while its 
nerve communicates with the central system." 

Strychnine, like Curare, annuls the art ion which 
the excitement of motor nerves normally produces 
upon the muscles. If a frog be poisoned by a suit- 
able dose of Xux vomica or Strychnine, injected 
under the skin, after a variable period, and some- 
times without there having been the least convul- 



NUX VOMICA. 125 

sion, the nerves subjected to the action of electro- 
magnetism excite no muscular contraction; but if 
one limb be so prepared that the poison cannot 
enter it, its nerve will remain alone excitable. 

Paralysis of the extremities of the motor nerves 
is independent of convulsions and of tetanus. 

After poisoning by Strychnine, as well as by 
Curare, galvanism of the pneumogastric does not 
arrest the beats of the heart. In these cases, the 
motor nerves have lost their excitability, while the 
muscles preserve theirs. To the homoeopath, this 
knowledge is of much practical importance. 

Prof. Haughton, in the " American Journal of 
the Medical Sciences/' says: "It is generally be- 
lieved that Strychnine exerts a specific action upon 
the lower or lumbar portions of the spinal column, 
exciting the muscular system (at least the volun- 
tary muscles), into a state of tetanic contraction, 
and ultimately producing death, indirectly, by ren- 
dering respiration mechanically impossible, by vir- 
tue of the permanent contraction of the pectoral 
muscles, and not, as was supposed, by its action on 
the heart." 

Prof. Hempel, says: "Xux vomica affects, pri- 
marily, the spinal column, motor and sentient 
i nerves ; it also affects the brain : we infer this 
from the injurious action upon the brain, in pa- 
tients who are attacked with apoplexy, attended 
with softening of the brain ; we infer it from the 
fact that it has caused stupor, vertigo, buzzing in 
the ears, sleeplessness, and turgescence of the capil- 
laries of the face." 

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126 NUX VOMICA. 

Upon the alimentary canal, Prof. Ilempel, Bays: 
"INux vomica has caused inflammation of the stom- 
ach and small intestines; but this sort- of inflam- 
mation seems to be incidental to a complete disor- 
ganization of the nervous life of the organs, rather 
than the result of a temporary de] tression of the ner- 
vous energy. Inflammations of this kind seem al- 
ways to be attended with convulsive paroxysms." 

Dr. R. Hughes, says : "Nux vomica has little 
or no influence upon the mucous membranes of the 
secreting organs, without it is some irritant action 
upon the respiratory mucous membrane; it b 
here, as elsewhere, upon the nerves and muscles." 

Dr. C. Dunham, says: "Nux vomica dor- uof 

diminish the action of the intestine; it rather in- 
crease- it, hut at the Bame time renders it inharmo- 
nious and spasmodic a hindrance, therefore, and 

not a help to evacuation. This is the reason why 

the constipation characteristic of Xux vomica is 
accompanied hv frequent, ineffectual desire for 
stool — the action of the intestine being irregular 

and spasmodic, and the const ipat ion is the result 

of irregularity, and not from inaction." 

Upon the sexual organs, both male and female, 

Nux vomica has a powerful influence. It first ex- 
cites their action, which is soon folio wed by depi 
sion. 



Grand Characteristics. 

Especially adapted to people with choleric, 
sanguine, malicious, irritable temperament. 
and to those who make great mental exertions. 









NUX VOMICA. 127 

" The patient cannot sleep after 3 a.m. ; ideas 
crowd upon the mind so as to keep him awake 
for hours." — G. 

" Symptoms always worse in the morning." 
— G. 

"Very irritable, and wishes to be alone." 
— G. 

" The disease seems to be caused by rich 
living, highly-seasoned food, stimulating drinks, 
or by a too sedentary life." — G. 

" Habitual constipation of large and difficult 
stools, or small stools with frequent urging to 
go to stool." — G. 

" Frequent calls to go to stool, but not able 
to defecate." — G. 

" Frequent urination ; she passes little and 
often, with much burning." — G. 

" Nausea and vomiting every morning, with 
constipation of large, difficult stools, and great 
depression of spirits." — G. 

" Very dyspeptic ; much excited by Coffea, 
spirituous liquors, or highly-seasoned food." 
— G. 

" Putrid taste, low down in the pharynx 
when hawking up mucus." — G. 

" Food and drink have a fetid smell to her ; 
cannot bear the odor of tobacco." — G. 

" Pressure towards the genital organs early 
in the morning, in bed, or during a walk, with 



128 NUX VOMICA. 

a sensation of contraction of the abdomen." 
— G. 

" Menses irregular, and never at the right 
time." — G. 

Menses too early and too profuse, with very 
faint spells. 

" Every pain during labor produces a de- 
to defecate or to urinate, particularly the for- 
mer."— G. 

" Much pain in the small of the hack, which 
is made worse by turning in bed/ 1 — G. 

"Dry cough, with a sense of constriction 
around the hypochondria." — G. 

Patient often troubled with piles. 

Hypochondria, with an irritable temper, aris- 
ing from liver complaint, or in drunkards. 

Vertigo, from excessive use of Coflea or 
liquor. 

Headache; feels as if it would split open ; 
with sour vomiting, caused by a sour stomach. 

"Sick headache, brought on by wine, coffee, 
close mental application, sedentary habits: 
commences in the morning, increases through 
the day, growing milder in the evening; with 
dimness of vision; sour, bitter vomiting; con- 
stipation; worse from noise, light, in the open 
air, or after eating." — Hering. 

Loses the connection of ideas, and fears she 
will lose her reason. 



NUX VOMICA. 129 

" Complaints from the open air; longing to 
sit or lie down ; ill-humored and resisting ob- 
stinately the wishes of others." — Hering. 

" Very particular, careful, zealous persons, 
inclined to get angry and s excited, or of a spite- 
ful, malicious disposition." — H. 

" Over-sensitiveness ; every harmless word 
offends ; every little noise frightens ; anxious 
md beside themselves ; they cannot bear the 
least, even suitable, medicine." — H. 

" Cannot keep from falling asleep in the 
evening, while sitting, hours before bedtime." 
— Hering. 

" Hypochondriasis in studious men ; sitting 
too much at home ; with abdominal complaints 
and costiveness." — H. 

" Headache in the forehead, as if the eyes 
would be pressed out, or in the occiput." — 
Raue. 

" Epilepsy where the spinal centres are 
prominently involved, as shown by the shocks 
and jerks so characteristic of Nux." 

" Itching and crawling in the face, as though 
millions of ants were crawling over it." — Hem- 
pel. 

" Objects appear in a bright light." — Hempel. 

" Taste is sour, musty, bitter, with a sensa- 
tion of hunger, but the appetite is immediately 
satisfied, after eating ever so little." — Hempel. 



130 NUX VOMICA. 

" Sensation as if his head were immensely 
larger than his body; as large as a church." 
— F. 

" Mouth and fauces full of fetid ulcers." 
— G. 

"Mouth dry and sore, with bloody saliva. " 
— G. 

No appetite, with loss of energy. 

" Food and drink have a fetid smell." — G. 

" Nausea and sour, bitter vomiting." — Rate. 

"Rising of sour and bitter fluid from the 
stomach." — Raue. 

Vomiting of sour mucus in the morning. 

" Flatulent distension after eating or drink- 
ing."-II. 

"Sudden feeling of repletion after swallow- 
ing a small quantity of food. n — G. 

Very dyspeptic, with tongue red and sore 
and coated yellow at the base. 

" Cardialgia, with clawing, constricting in 
pit of stomach, extending to the small of the 
back or anus; brought on by coffee, liquor, 
nostrums, sedentary habits, mental exertions." 
— Raue. 

" Pressure over the solar plexus brings on 
the spasms." — Raue. 

" Colic, with pressure upwards towards the 
thorax." — Raue. 









NUX VOMICA. 131 



Hepatic colic, with sudden severe pain in 

E+he right side ; spasms of abdominal muscles. 
" Hemorrhoidal colic, with horrid tearing, 
•essing pains in the small of the back and 
wer bowels ; frequent and ineffectual urging 
to stool ; vertigo, headache, &c." — Hempel. 

" Flatulent colic, as if the bowels, bladder, 
and rectum were pressed upon with a sharp 
instrument." — Hempel. 

" Sensation as if a hernia would form." — F. 

Spasmodic recent hernia (Strychnia). 

" Constipation, with ineffectual and frequent 
urging to stool, with a sensation as if the anus 
was contracted." — G. 

" Piles, with shooting shocks in the loins, 
contractive pains which hinder from rising up, 
and ineffectual urging to evacuate." — G. 

" Wishes to urinate or defecate very often, 
but little at a time." — G. 

Hemorrhage from the anus in hemorrhoids. 

Paralytic incontinence of urine from irrita- 
tion of the lower portion of the spine. 

" Bloody urine."— G. 

" Nocturnal emissions, from plethora of the 
sexual organs ; or emissions without erections, 
followed by debility and great relaxation of 
the parts." — Hempel. 

Great excitement of the sexual organs of 
women, with sexual dreams at night. 



132 NUX VOMICA. 

" Menstruation never at the right time." 

Menses too early and too profuse, with weak, 
faint spells. 

u Fetid leucorrhoea, tinging the linen yellow, 
with pain in the uterus, as if bruised.'* — G. 

" During every labor-pain has a desire for 
stool, or to urinate." — G. 

Dry coryza ; worse nights. 

"Dry, hard cough, with great soreness of 
the abdomen." 

Spasmodic asthma ; muscles of the chest be- 
come rigid; groat anxiety and suffocation. 

"Tetanic convulsions, excited by contact. 
noise, or any external stimulus." — IIempkl. 

u Affects the cerebrospinal axis in the same 
manner as that unseen, immaterial, impalpable 
cause, which, by its action upon the cerebro- 
spinal axis, leads to the production of tetanic 
spasms." — IIempel. 

"Paralysis, resulting from softening of that 
portion of the cerebro-spinal axis which sends 
off nerves to the paralyzed limb; the tempe- 
rature of the limb is diminished, especially in 
paralysis of drunkards." — Hempel. 

" Much pain in the lumbar region." — Hem- 
pel. 

The pains caused by Nux vomica are ting- 
ling, hard, aching, sticking pains; aggravated 
by motion or contact. 



IIGNATIA AMARA. 133 

u After aromatics in food, or as a medicine, 
articularly ginger, pepper, &c, and after al- 
most any kind of so-called hot medicine." — 
Goullon. 

" Will always benefit persons who have been 
drugged by mixtures, bitters, herbs, vegetable 
pills, and all kinds of nostrums." — Raue. 

IGNATIA AMARA. 

St. Ignatius 9 s Bean. 

Acts especially upon the medulla oblongata, 
producing tetanic convulsions, dyspnoea, asphyxia, 
and death. 

Marcy and Hunt say, " Its specific sphere is the 
spine, from which all the symptoms proceed. It 
produces nervous diseases, and especially clonic 
spasms ; over-excitement of the spinal nervous sys- 
tem giving rise early to nervous symptoms." 

R. Hughes, M,D., says, "Ignatia exalts the im- 
pressionability of the incident nerves all over the 
body. We have, hence, pains and other morbid 
sensations well-nigh everywhere ; increased suscep- 
tibility of the special senses ; emotional sensitive- 
ness ; and probably from reflex excitation, twitch- 
ings, constrictions, $ncj spasms. This action of 
the drug, however, is not deep and lasting. An 
alternating series of symptoms — numbness, torpor, 
depression — soon appear, which are themselves as 
superficial as their predecessors. The febrile symp- 
toms have the same characteristics." 

The bean contains triple the amount of Strychnia 

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134 IGNATIA AMARA. 

that the Xux vomica seeds do, and its action is more 
energetic. 

It debilitates or paralyzes organic or animal 
life, which is controlled by the spinal marrow, and 
cerebrum and cerebellum, — as shown by the gr 
depression of the mind, desponding melancholia, 
low-spirited, with great muscular prostration, — 
found in many female diseaa 

Grand Characteristic** 

The patient is full of grief; frequent invol- 
untary sighing, with a Bensation of goneness 

emptiness in the pit of the stomach. 

"Strongly inclined to solitude, and to be 
very secretive and passive." — (i. 

ww Sadness and sighing, with an empty feeling 
at the pit of the stomach." — G. 

" Full of grief; with a weak, empty feeling 
at the pit of the stomach, which is not relieved 
by eating." — G. 

" Mental symptoms change often from joy to 
sadness." — G. 

" Uterine cramps, with cutting stitches." 
— G. 

" Difficult stool, causing prolapsus ani." — G. 

"After stool, a violent stabbing stitch, from 
the anus upwards into the rectum/' — DcJHHAM. 

"Frequent spasmodic constrictions of the 
anus after stool." — Dunham. 

" Piles, attended with pains shooting deep 



IGNATIA AMARA. 135 

into the rectum, seemingly up into the abdo- 
men, with a sensation of excoriation or con- 
traction of the anus." — G. 

" Child is spasmodic, with sighing." — G. 

u The patient is sensitive, peevish, excita- 
ble, hysterical, with sanguine nervous tempera- 
ment ; is delicate ; falls easily in love ; is ro- 
mantic ; bears trials meekly, and readily falls 
into clonic spasms after mental agitation." — 
Marcy and Hunt. 

Silent grief. 

Feeling as if being sw r ung to and fro. 

" Great importance about plans and bad feel- 
ings, which cannot be described." — G. 

Fretfulness of temper, with timidity. 

Spasmodic laughter, from grief. 

"Disappointed affection, with silent grief 
constantly preying upon the mind." — Marcy 
and Hunt. 

Silent, concealed grief, combined with mor- 
tification ; suppressed vexation. 

" Fright, followed by sadness or grief." — 
Marcy and Hunt. 

"Sleeplessness, caused by dejection, grief, 
&c." — Marcy and Hunt. 

Excessive convulsive yawning, with stiff- 
ness, or pain in the nape of neck. 

" Headache, as if a nail were driven out 
through the side ; relieved by lying on it." 



136 IGNATIA AMARA. 

" Throbbing pain in the occiput ; worse from 
pressing at stool, from smoking, or the smell 
of tobacco smoke." — Rale. 

" Nervous headache, when the eyes are in- 
volved; more generally one eye, with burning 
lachrymation ; pressure in the eve. from within 
outwards." — HEMPEL. 

Gets sleepy after every coughing spell. 

Broods over imaginary trouble. 

Spasms and tetanic convulsions in children 
and hysterical women. 

Clonic convulsions in hysterical, fitful 
women. 

" Tetanic convulsions, with frequent inclina- 
tion to yawn." — Makcv and Hint. 

Chorea; the convulsions are greatest in the 
mouth, producing much distortion of the (ace. 

" Epilepsy, caused by fright or grief." — Raue. 

Spasms in children from fright. 

" In talking or chewing, they bite themsel 
in the cheek or tongue." — Hekixg. 

u Odontalgia, as if the tooth were crushed or 
smashed into fragments." — 1 1 km pel. 

" Boring pain in the front teeth, and a sore- 
ness in all the teeth ; worse alter drinking cof- 
fee, after smoking, after dinner, in the evenin 
after lying down, and in the morning." — IIer- 

1NG. 

u Feeling of emptiness or goneness in the 






IGNATIA AMARA. 137 

tomach, with a sensation as if a number of 
pins were sticking in it; not relieved by eat- 
ing." — Hempel. 

" Excessive flatulence." — Hughes. 

u Gastralgia, with stitching pains, brought 
on by starvation, care, grief." — Hartman. 

Cl Sensation in the stomach, as if one had 
been fasting too long; as if the stomach were 
empty, with flat taste and languor in the 
limbs." — Hempel. 

" The evacuation of faeces is difficult, because 
of a seeming inactivity of the rectum; cannot 
make a violent effort to expel them without 
danger of eversion and prolapsus of the rec- 
tum." — Dunham. 

u Moderate pressure at stool causes prolapsus 
ani." — Dunham. 

"After stool, painful constriction of the 
anus." — Dunham. 

"After stool, a stabbing stitch from the anus 
upwards into the rectum." — Dunham. 

"Bleeding after and during stool." — Dun- 
ham. 

"Hemorrhoids; the tumors prolapse with 
every stool, and have to be replaced; they are 
sore, as if excoriated; both hemorrhage and 
pain is worse when the stool is loose ; dragging 
pains around the pelvis." — Dunham. 

Neuralgia of the rectum. 
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138 IGNATIA AMARA. 

Bowels inclined to be loose. 

Pain in the anus, returning regularly every 
day; worse when walking or standing; relieved 
by sitting. 

"Stitches in the hemorrhoidal tumors during 
every cough." 

" Urine pale and profuse." — G. 

" Scanty, dark-colored, and acrid urine." — 
Teste. 

"Sexual desire, with impotence." — Teste. 

"Menses scanty, black, of a putrid odor." 
— G. 

"Languor, unto fainting, during the men- 
ses."— G. 

"Uterine cramps, with stitches." — G. 

"Chlorosis; the stomach is very delica 
oedema of the lower limbs." — Dr. Eisenmanx. 

"Dry and hollow cough in the morning, on 
waking." 

" Constant hacking cough in the evening, in 
bed."— Teste. 

" Constrictive sensation above the throat-pit, 
which compels one to cough." — Teste. 

"'Dry, rough, harsh, spasmodic cough, with 
a sensation of a feather, or the vapor of sul- 
phur in the throat." — Jaiir. 

" Every time he stands still, during a walk, 
he coughs." — H. 

" Cold hands and feet, up to the knees ; 






CURARE. 139 

numbness of the feet, legs, and sometimes of 
the whole lower limbs." — Teste. 

" During the chill, thirsty ; external warmth, 
pleasant ; during the fever heat, no thirst ; ex- 
ternal warmth, very pleasant." 

Change of position relieves the pains ; aggra- 
vated by coffee and tobacco. 

" Symptoms occur in the morning and even- 
ing, but more particularly in the morning." — 
Teste. 

"Like Nux, the symptoms are aggravated 
by contact, motion, open air, and artificial 
warpath." — Teste. 

" Morning is the best time to give Ignatia." 
— Hahnemann. 

CURARE. 

Indian Arrow-Poison. 

Acts especially upon the spinal cord and motor 
nervous system, producing paralysis, and doing so 
from the periphery towards the centre. " Curare 
acts upon the extremities with more intensity than 
Strychnine, and Strychnine upon the cord with 
more intensity than Curare ; such is the shade of 
difference in their action." 

" Curare and Strychnine differ in their action 
only by shades. Curare, like Strychnine, deter- 
mines convulsions by augmenting the excitability 
of the spinal cord." — Messrs. Martin, Magron, 
and Buissox. 



140 COCCULUS IXDICVS. 

Adapted to neurotic, paralytic diseases, to the 
debility of old people, and exhausting dil 

COCCULUS INDICUS. 

Seeds of A ta Cocci/? 

Dr. Hughe- %t The testimony of tho-e who 

have experienced its effect-. Lb that it influen 
the voluntary muscles, rather than the intellectual 
powers ; with this, Hahnemann's provings entin 
agree. I think that tin' whole range of its cura- 
tive action heconies intelligible, it' we BUppoc 
influence the motor tract of the craniospinal ai 

from the corpora striata t<> the eanda equina. 
w * The ultimate ell- i!us upon the spinal 

cord, appear- to diminish its irritability, n that 

while convulsions are produced in a- ■:>< ming 

hy the drug, paralytic symptoms abound in the 

continued experiments of the proven. 9 ' 

Prof. Ilempel says: "CoCCUlufl acts UpOU the 
spinal system of nervea, causing even paralyse <>t" 
the motor nerves and tetanic COnvulflioi 

Pereira says: "It act- rather on the voluntary 
muscles than on the intellectual p 

It also affects the genitourinary 01 nd skin. 

In uterine affi one of the moat common 

symptoms is "weakness, BO-called by the patii 
but better expressed by the words languor, lai 
tude, inertness, or general sense of prostration, 
if it were impossible to make any exertion." This 
is caused by nervous prostration, or para 
the animal life, from irritation of the cerebro- 
spinal system. Xo remedy in the materia medica 



COCCULUS INDICUS. 141 

produces this symptom more powerfully than Coc- 
culus, and I would call particular attention to this 
fact. 

Grand Characteristics* 

" She feels too weak to talk aloud." — G. 

" Always worse for a while after eating, 
drinking, or talking." — G. 

" In the morning or during menstruation 
she is scarcely able to raise herself in the bed 
from nausea and inclination to vomit, it makes 
her so faint." — G. 

" Leucorrhoea in place of the menses; she is 
so weak, is scarcely able to speak." — G. 

" Leucorrhoea like serum, mixed with puru- 
lent, ichorous liquid." — G. 

u Irregular menstruation, with nausea and 
faintness." — G. 

" Painful pressure in the uterus, with cramps 
in the chest and fainting nausea." — G. 

Nausea, even to faintness, with great depri- 
vation of nervous strength, with no disturbance 
in the vegetative sphere. 

Sensation of sharp stones in the abdomen 
on motion. 

" Hard stool every other day ; expelled with 
great difficulty." — G. 

" Much paralytic pain in the small of the 
back, rendering walking very difficult and 
sometimes impossible." — G. 



142 cocculus m>l< 

Adapted to hysterical and spasmodic dis- 
eases, that have their origin in "the motor 
tract of the craniospinal axis, from the corpora 
striata to the cauda equina." — Hughes. 

" Violent headache ; unable to lie on the 
back of the head; is forced to lie on the side; 
unable to bear the least light; noise e 
nausea and vomiting." — Hughes. 

11 Head and face hot ; feet cold." — G. 

" Roaring in the ears, ts though there were 
shells before them. 91 — G. 

" Sadness; irascibility: anxiety; tendency 

to start, especially at night." — Tj 

" Vertigo increased by sitting np in bed, or 
by the motion of a carriage/ 1 — MabOT and 
Hunt. 

11 People who are much injured by sitting 
up at night, feeling weaker if they only I 
one hour's sleep." — MARCT and Hint. 

Trembling of the head; very nervous. 

" Paroxysms of vertigo, with nausea." — 
Teste. 

" Vertigo, as from intoxication. v — Jatir. 

" Painful concussion in the brain when walk- 
ing, when moving the head, or when talking." 
— Jahr. 

u The symptoms of the head are all 
vated hy talking, laughing, crying, walking, 
smoking, or drinking coffee." — Douglas. 



COCCULUS INDICTS. 143 

"Choking constriction in the fauces, with 
lifficulty in breathing and irritable cough/ 1 
— G. 

" Burning in the oesophagus, extending into 
the fauces, with a taste of sulphur." — G. 

" Sea-sickness, where the affection is from 
cerebral irritation/' — Teste. 

u Violent nausea during a ride in a carriage/' 

Teste. 

" One of the best palliatives for the cerebral 
form of sick headache, where the vomiting is 
plainly secondary." — Hughes. 

" Nausea, resembling sea-sickness, as if the 
stomach heaved up and down ; often brought on 
by looking at a vessel pitching up." — Hughes. 

'•Nausea; and on sitting up, the objects 
around seem to move up and down." — Hughes. 

Flatulent colic at midnight. 

" Abdomen distended, and feeling as if full 
of sharp stones when moving." — G. 

Diarrhoea, only in the daytime. 

" Hard stool, expelled every other day with 
great difficulty."— G. 

'•Menstrual colic; the pains are of a spas- 
modic, irregular character." — G. 

•• Dysmenorrhea, always followed by hem- 
orrhoids." — G. 

" Profuse menses, with a sensation of sharp 
stones in the abdomen on motion." — G. 



144 cocculus ixr>i< 

Severe spasmodic pains in the neck of the 
uterus. 

" Labor pains are of a spasmodic, irregular, 
paralytic character; has one hard one, then 
several light ones." — (i. 

"The condition of* the nervoi; 
up by menstruation and pregnancy, appei 
especially favorable to the action ofCoCCUlu 

— Hughes. 

Spasms of pregnant women, with great weak- 
ness, so much BO that she can hardly talk; 
with much flatulency. 

"Irritation and dryness of the larynx, with 
dry COUgh." — Ti 

u Dry, fatiguing cough, owing to the dyspi 
that accompanies it." — Tf 

The arm and thigh cannot be moved in their 
joints on account of pain. 

Paralysis from functional disorders of the 

cord on one side of the body. 

Much paralytic pain in the small of the 

back. 

Paralysis from diphtheria, in nervous. I 
terical subjects. 

Especially suited to women and nervous 
children, of lively turn of mind, troubled with 
imaginary fears. 

Specific for body lice, used topically. 



CONIUM MACULATUM. 145 

CONIUM MACULATUM. 

Poison Hemlock. 

Acts upon the cerebrospinal and ganglionic 
nervous systems ; also affects the glands, skin, and 
respiratory organs. Hughes says, "It directly 
paralyzes the spinal cord from below upwards, kill- 
ing at last by gradual asphyxia." The feet and 
legs become first paralyzed, and it gradually passes 
upwards until it reaches the chest and paralyzes 
the pectoral muscles, when death ensues. 

Prof. Hempel says, " It affects every part of the 
nervous system, the brain, spinal nerves, and gan- 
glionic system ; affects the spinal marrow antago- 
nistically to the action of Strychnine. Conium 
causes prostration of the nervous power, and sub- 
sequently paralysis, whereas Strychnia causes a 
spasmodic excitement of the spinal marrow, and 
as a consequence, muscular spasm." 

King says, " It is supposed to effect its results 
by exhausting the nervous energy of the spinal 
cord and voluntary muscles." 

Its action through the vegetative system upon 
the glands is shown by the wasting away of the 
mammae, and eruptions upon the skin. 

Upon the respiratory organs by the " dry, hack- 
ing, almost continual cough, worse on lying down, 
and at night." 

Grand Characteristics. 

" Much troubled with vertigo, particularly 
when lying down and when turning over in 
bed."— G. 

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146 COXIUM MACULATUM. 

Much difficulty in voiding urine; it flows 
and stops again, then flows and stops at each 
emission. — G. 

"Soreness and swelling of the breast*, pre- 
ceding menstruation. " — G. 

Induration of the breasts; hard as »ne. 

"All cases of indurations from injuries." — G. 

"Shrivelling of the mamma 1 , with increa 
sexual desire." — G. 

"Prolapsus uteri, complicated with indura- 
tion, ulceration, and profuse leucorrhoea." — (1. 

"Leuoorrhoea of white, acrid mucus, caus- 
ing a burning or smarting sensation." — G« 

During the menses has Btinging pains in the 

neck of the uterus, and vertigo while lying 
down. 

"Violent itching of the vulva, followed by 
pressing down of the uterus/ 1 — (i. 

"Frequent sour eructations, with hardi 
and distension of the abdomen." — (I. 

"Particularly suitable lor women with tight, 
rigid librc^s, and easily excited, as well as for 
those in the opposite condition." — G. 

Adapted to the debility of old people; to 
diseases caused by a blow or fall, and to can- 
cerous and scrofulous people, with tight, rigid 
fibre. 

"Great weakness and trembling after stool." 
— H. M. N. 



CONIUM MACULATUM. 147 

"Stools liquid, fecal; mingled with hard 
lumps; watery; undigested.' 1 — J. B. Bell. 

Great concern about little things. 

Very easily excited. 

Easily intoxicated. 

"Dreads being alone, but avoids society." — 
Lippe. 

Vertigo when lying down, particularly when 
turning over in bed. 

Lips and teeth have black crusts on them. 

"Vomiting, that looks like black coffee- 
grounds." — G. 

"Terrible nausea and vomiting in women 
having scirrhosities, during pregnancy." — G. 

"Frequent sour eructations, with hardness 
and distension of the abdomen." — G. 

Constipation, with constant and ineffectual 
urging to stool; with vertigo while lying 
down. 

"Stitches extending from the abdomen to 
the right side of the chest." — G. 

"Frequent stitches in the anus between 
stools."— G. 

"Heat and burning in the rectum during 
stools." — G. 

" The breasts swell, become hard and pain- 
ful before the menses, when her hysterical 
symptoms increase greatly; the vertigo, when 
lying down, becomes very severe." — G. 



148 CONIUM MACULATUM. 

Indurations of the breasts become very pain- 
ful at every menstrual period. 

Breasts very sore before the menses. 

" Induration and enlargement of the ovary. " 
— G. 

"Induration of the testicles." 

u Dysmenorrhoea, with aching pains about 
the heart." — H. 

" Burning, sore, aching pain in the region 
of the uterus." — G. 

" Rigidity of the os uteri/' — G. 

Menses wanting. 

Stinging pains in the neck of the uterus, 
with induration and seirrhositi< 

" Aching pain in the abdomen during preg- 
nancy; is disturbed between twelve and three 
o'clock at night, by having to get up to uri- 
nate. Has no affection for any body." — J. C. M. 

Eruptions on the vulva, with violent Btitc 
through it. 

Acrid, corrosive leacorrhoea. 

" Hacking, almost continual, cough; worse 
at night, when lying down.' 1 — Hughes. 

"Bruises and shocks of the spine." — Liitk. 

Pulse very irregular in fevers. 

Cancers produced by a blow, and aggravated 
during every menstrual period. 

Petechia in old people. 



^SCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM. 149 

ANGUSTTTRA VERA. 

Galipoea Officinalis. 

Especially affects the motor portion of the spinal 
cord. 

Grand Characteristics. 

"Lock-jaw; the lips are drawn back, show- 
ing the teeth/' — Lippe. 

"Spasmodic breathing; palpitation of the 
heart, with anguish." — Lippe. 

Intermittent fever; chill every day at 3 
p.m. 

Paralytic diseases and tetanus. 

JESCULTJS HIPPOCASTANUM. 

Horse Chestnut 

Acts upon the cerebro-spinal, and ganglionic 
nervous system ; more especially affecting the 
lower portion of the spinal cord, the rectum, and 
anus. I once thought it powerfully influenced the 
liver, entirely suspending its secretion, producing 
white stools ; but a better physiology has taught 
me that white stools are caused by the follicles of 
the colon not performing their function. "Dr. 
Inman has shown that the feces do not become 
brown until they reach the colon ; and that the 
green stools of infants assume their peculiar color 
at this point." From this we must conclude that 
^Esculus acts through the ganglionic system, upon 
the follicles of the colon, rectum, and anus, en- 

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150 ^SCULUS HIPPOCASTAXUM. 

tirely suspending their secretion ; and this ac- 
counts for the white stools, and also for the con- 
stipation. But the constipation is also due to 
paralysis of the motor filaments of the spinal 
nerves that are distributed to the colon. It prob- 
ably produces some passive portal CO ion. 

Dr. E. M. Hall Bays: 

" A careful study of* its patho - would lead 

us to one or two conclusion- : (a) that it affected 
the whole mucous membranes in a peculiar manner, 
exciting therein c vith irrita- 

tion, and that this action was tin of the 

whole phenomena; op, b) that the Btarting-point 
ofita action wbb in the portal system, the circula- 
tion of which 18 deranged in a peculiar and ] 
found manner, and from thifl led the 

gastric, hepatic, intotinal, and rectal symptoms. 
It is difficult to hold to one explanation to the 
elusion of the other." 

The explanation under (a) is the nearest to being 

right. 

Qrand CkaructertstUm* 

" Constriction, protrusion, fulness, aching, 
dryness, itching, pricking, tenesmus, pains in 
the rectum and anus." — Hall. 

"Dry, uncomfortable feeling in the rectum, 
which feels as if it was fdled with small sticks." 
— Hughes. 

" Excessive dryness of the rectum, with a 
feeling of heat." — Hall. 

Hemorrhoids; " there is little tendency to 



^SCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM. 151 

hemorrhage, but much severe fulness and 
bearing down, with constipation." — Hughes. 

" Dreadful pain in the anus ; could not sit, 
stand, or lie down. The pain was like a knife 
sawing backw r ards and forwards; almost a 
martyrdom for agony." — Hughes. 

"Large hemorrhoids, which quite block up 
the rectum, without much hemorrhage." — 
Hughes. 

The hemorrhoidal tumors protrude from the 
rectum; are of a blue-purple color, with sharp, 
shooting, cutting pains in them, running up 
into the sacrum. 

" An intolerable burning, itching pain, with 
a feeling of fulness of the anus/' — T. C. Dun- 
can. 

"Aching, swelling, and rigid hardness of 
the rectum, with constipation." — T. C. Dun- 
can. 

"A painful weakness of the loins, with dull 
aching pain." — Dr. W..M. Cuthbert. 

"Soreness in the rectum, with increased 
secretion of mucus, or as if the folds of the 
mucous membrane obstructed the passage, and 
as if, were the effort continued, the rectum 
w r ould protrude." — Boyce. 

Dull aching pains in the small of the back; 
much aggravated by walking. 

"Severe aching pains in the lumbar and 



152 ^SCULUS HIPPOCASTANTM. 

sacral regions, with stiffness of the back ; al- 
most impossible to walk." — G. 

Exhausts the nervous power of the spinal 
cord, so that its functions cannot be p« 
formed. 

Severe lumbar and sacral pains. 

Capillary congestion of the mucous mem- 
brane of the bowels. 

White, soft, papescent stools. 

Prolapsus ani, with constipation. 

Lumbar and sacral pains from hemorrhoids 

or female diseases. 

u Lameness in the small of the back, worse 
on walking." — F. 

Constant backackei tiffecting the Mcrum ami 
hipst aggravated by walking or Btoopii 



GROUP FOURTH. 



153 



GROUP IV. 



Sulphur, 

Calcarea carb., 

Lycopodium, 

Silicea, 

Hepar sulph., 

Phosphorus, 

Cistus can., 

Sarsaparilla, 

Sanguinaria, 

Kali carb., 

Kali bichroruicum, 

Kali hyd., 

Electricity, 



Causticum, 
Eumex crispus, 
Carbo veg., 
Carbo an., 
Alumina, 
Stannum, 
Graphites, 
Juglans cinerea, 
Thuja, 
Magnesia, 
Dulcamara, 
Corallia rub., 
Psorin. 



This group represents our true antipsoric reme- 
dies, and may be called our vegetative, or organic 
group, their grand sphere of action being on the 
ganglionic, or great sympathetic nervous system. 
In all diseases, acute or chronic, where there is 
more or less structural change, such as is found in 
inflammation, ulceration, &c, either active or pas- 
sive, involving the arterial or venous circulation, 
there is, essentially and really, a disorder of the 
ganglionic, or great sympathetic nervous system of 
organic life. 

This great nerve of organic life, under whose di- 
rection are performed all the functions of the body 
which are entirely out of the reach of the will, 
"arises from a series of ganglia, extending along 



154 GROUP FOURTH. 

each side of the vertebral column, from the h< 
to the coccyx. These two gangliated cords lie 
parallel with one another as far as the sacrum, on 
which bone they converge, communicating together 
through a single ganglion (ganglion impar), placed 
in front of the coccyx. Some anatomists claim that 
the two cords are joined at their cephalic extremity, 
through a small ganglion [ganglion of Bilk ^situa- 
ted on the anterior, communicating artery." Prom 
these ganglia nerves are distributed to all the vis- 
cera of the body. 

. "The ganglionic system, as the primary and fun- 
damental seat of life, must contain all the hereditary 
elements of health and disease, which latter may 
he considered as latent, till they begin to he trans- 
mitted to some of the organizations which this 
system supplies. Hut as tl -ystem 

supplies to each of the involuntary vital organs all 
that is involved in their nutrition, structural, and 
functional life, it must at the same time imparl 
them the germs of its own constitutional dyscra- 
sia. Then that, which tor the briefest space only 
may he supposed to have been absolutely latent in 
the solar plexus, may he apparently latent in the 
vital organs for a longer or short- on, OT ] i 

ing harmlessly through them, he ultimated in the 
skin. And many forms of organic disease, which, 
from an accompanying tendcrne- <mc con 

ponding spinous processes, have commonly been 
attributed to 'spinal irritation,' are thus seen to 
be the direct result of the psoric miasm flowing 
into these organs with the vital currents from the 
ganglionic system. And it is believed that the 



SULPHUR. 155 

germs of hereditary dyscrasia, latent in the sympa- 
thetic ganglia, may be discovered in the form of 
minute tubercles in the voluntary organs, in the 
spinal marrow, and in the brain. AVill it be pos- 
sible for microscopic pathology to discover such 
germs in the ganglionic centre of life itself?" — 
Prof. J. H. P. Frost. 

Remedies of this class are more especially adapted 
to chronic, rather than acute, scrofulous diseases, 
of a psoric origin. For a full exposition of psora, 
or semi-vital miasm, the common mother of most 
chronic diseases, vide Chronic Diseases, written by 
the greatest physician that ever lived, Samuel 
Hahnemann. 

SULPHUR. 

Flowers of Sulphur. 

This king of remedies, around which centres the 
whole materia medica, acts especially upon the veg- 
etative or ganglionic nervous system, and through 
it, upon the venous capillary vessels throughout 
the body ; upon the mucous membranes ; the skin ; 
the portal system ; the genito-urinary organs, and 
lastly, upon the cerebro-spinal axis. 

Prof. Hempel says : " That it is the venous capil- 
lary system which receives the primary shock of 
this mighty agent, together with that portion of 
the 2*ang;lionic svstem of nerves which is immedi- 
ately connected, or interwoven with the capillary 
tissue. If you remember that under the depressing 
action of Sulphur, the venous capillaries become 
congested, the stagnant blood resisting the arterial 



156 SULPHUR. 

current, which seeks to drive it onward, you cannot 
have any difficulty in understanding the various 
drawing, tearing, cramping, boring, laming, stitch- 
ing, and other pains, which Sulphur is capable 
exciting." 

When it is remembered that venous capillary 
vessels are to be found in every organ and tise 
in the body, and that Sulphur produces through 
the ganglionic system, which forms plexuses or ret- 
inn around the capillary vessels, paralysis of their 
walls, we can readily understand the consequen 

of paralysis and stagnation in the venous capilla- 
ries, such as "chronic congestion, exudation, and 

suppuration of internal organs, and the various 
eruptions, vesicles, pustules, boils, ul •., with 

which Sulphur L8 in BO eminent a d in curat : 

adaptation." This explains why Sulphur has such 
a vast and wide range of usefulness. 

Upon the mucous mem . especially those of 

the eyes, bronchi, urethra, vagina, and rectum, it 
produces burning, acrid, mucous discharges, with 
much itching. 

Upon the sWn, it causes an eruption so much re- 
sembling the itch, that one of the proven feared it 
might be this disease. It also ca sicles, pim- 

ples, blotches, boils, various forms of herpes, ery- 
thema, tinea capitis, ulceration of the nails, inter- 
trigo, and various other forms of ulceration. 

Upon the portal system, it has a great influence, 
producing venous engorgement, with a long train 
of symptoms, especially in the lower portion of the 
digestive organs. 



SULPHUR. 157 

Upon the sexual organs, especially of women, it 
has a powerful influence, producing swelling of the 
external parts, acrid leucorrhoea, and the menses 
become profuse, the blood is black, clotted and 
gluey. 

Upon the cerebrospinal system, it produces many 
prominent symptoms, but whether through the 
animal nervous system, or the venous system, it is 
hard to determine, probably through both. 

Sulphur is the first remedy, as a rule, to be 
thought of in treating all chronic diseases ; but it is 
very frequently indicated in acute diseases, where 
well-chosen remedies do not have the desired effect. 
A close examination of the patient will reveal the 
psora element well represented in the case ; here 
Sulphur is the remedy par excellence: give a dose 
of Sulphur, and do not be in a hurry to repeat the 
remedy. A delay of six, twelve, or twenty-four 
hours, or even longer, may be required to realize 
the best results. And the rule is imperative here, 
to repeat no dose, and give no additional remedy 
while improvement is progressing, from that al- 
ready given. And in these cases the high dilu* 
tions must be chosen in order to get the full benefit 
of the remedy. 

Grand Cliar act eristics. 

" Constant heat in the top of the head." — G. 
" Flashes of heat, which pass off with moist- 
ure and debility. ,, — G. 

" With single doses of Sulphur 55 m., I have 

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158 SULPHUR. 

cured numerous cases of incipient phthisis, — 
indicated by the usual symptoms." — F. 

" She comes out of her spasms very happy, 
and everything seems beautiful to her; at the 
termination of each spasm she discharges large 
quantities of colorless urine." — G. 

" She is very happy, and imagines she is in 
possession of beautiful things ; awakes at night 
singing, she is so happy ; dreams very happy 
dreams." — G. 

"She feels very weak and faint from eleven 
to twelve, a.m. ; she must have her dinner." 
— G. 

"Child has great voracity; wishes to put 
into its mouth everything it sees; watches 
eagerly for every thing." — G. 

Stools of children are very excoriating; the 
child jumps, starts, and screams fearfully. 

"The first effort to stool is often very pain- 
ful, compelling the patient to desist." — G. 

"Tenesmus for an hour after stool; on at- 
tempting to sit down at stool the pain in the 
anus prevents her from doing so." — G. 

"The discharging of stool and the flow of 
urine are painful to the parts over which they 
pass." — G. 

Constipation from abdominal plethora; stools 
hard, knotty, and insufficient, especially if ac- 
companied with hemorrhoids. 



SULPHUR. 159 

"Itching and burning of the anus." — 
Hughes. 

Excoriations around the anus in little chil- 
dren. 

Ascarides and lumbrici. 

" Diarrhoea in the morning, driving the pa- 
tient out of bed ; has hardly time to keep her- 
self from being soiled." — G. 

" Menses thick and black, and so acrid as 
to make the thighs sore." — G. 

u Menses too early, too profuse, and last too 
long, with flushes of heat, and weak, faint 
spells."— G. 

" Chronic hemorrhage ; she seems to get al- 
most well, when it occurs again and again, day 
after day, for weeks; she is weak, and has 
weak, faint spells." — G. 

" Offensive, corrosive, ichorous leucorrhoea ; 
it burns like salt, making the vulva sore." 
— G. 

" Weak, faint spells, occurring frequently 
through the day." — G. 

Feeling as if a lump of ice in the right 
chest. 

% * Very sore feeling, and disposition of the 
parts to excoriate ; the skin is full of pimples 
and eruptions." — G. 

" The child has a tendency to excoriate, es- 



160 SULPHUR. 

pecially about the anus, and wherever the skin 
is folded upon itself." — G. 

"Pimply eruptions filled with pus." — G. 

Vesicular eruptions, that burn much at night 
when going to bed. 

" Feels suffocated ; wants the doors and win- 
dows open/' — G. 

"Dry, suppressed, choking cough." — G. 

" Much rattling of mucus in the chest. 91 — G. 

Burning in the soles of the feet, especially at 
night; has to keep them uncovered. 

" Especially suitable for lean persons who 
walk stooping." — Lute. 

" Diseases caused by suppressed itch, and hy 
suppression of hemorrhoidal discharge, especi- 
ally ' bilious colic/ * — Frost. 

Sensorium. — "Has happy dreams; wakens 

singing; is very happy." — G. 

Despondent; out of humor; weeps mueli. 
Talks much in sleep; awakens with a start. 

"Irresistible drowsiness in the daytime, and 
wakefulness the whole night.' 1 — II. 

"Short naps of sleep all night, or a dead, 
heavy sleep, which produces exhaustion." — G. 

Head. — Burning hot distress on the top of 
the head ; constant symptom. 
Chronic vertigo. 
" Rush of blood to the head, with roaring 



SULPHUR. 161 

in the ears, and burning creeping in the face." 
— Hempel. 

Throbbing headache at night. 

Small vesicles on the head, filled with limpid 
fluid ; itch a great deal, and form dry, yellow 
or brown crusts. 

Tinea capitis, dry form. 

Ears. — " Deafness, with roaring, itching, 
and dampness of the ear." — Hempel. 

Eyes. — " Dimness of vision; gas or lamp- 
lights appear to be surrounded with a halo." 
— Hempel. 

" Scrofulous ophthalmia, with chronic in- 
flammation and hypertrophy of the lids, with 
itching, and smarting, and purulent exuda- 
tions." — Marcy and Hunt. 

Face. — Vivid redness of the face. 

Liver spots on the face. 

" Chronic swelling and inflammation of the 
nose, face, and lips." — Hughes. 

" Comedones ; black pores of the skin, par- 
ticularly in the face." — H. 

Mouth and Tongue. — " Child is voracious; 
wishes to put into his mouth everything it 
sees."— G. 

Sour, clammy taste. 

Tongue coated whitish or yellow. 

Organs of Digestion. — Abdominal plethora. 

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162 SULPHUR. 

"Chronic constipation; the stools are hard, 
dark, and dry, and are expelled with great 
straining, even to such an extent that blood 
discharged ; with itching and burning of the 
anus, and frequently accompanied with piles. 
In such a case give Sulphur for one or two 
weeks, when another remedy must be chosen ; 
if continued it will spoil the case." — IIughks. 
(Better wait for the Sulphur to do all it can.) 

Chronic hemorrhages from the bowels. 

" Piles, either blind or flowing, with dis- 
charges of dark venous blood, and violent 
bearing-down pains m the small of the back, 
towards the anus." — Rati-:. 

"Suppression of piles, with hemorrhoidal 

colic, congestions, palpitation of the heart. 
pulmonary congestion, rigidity of the small of 
the back, as if it had been bruised. H 

"Diarrhoea in the morning, driving the pa- 
tient out of bed ; has hardly time to keep from 
soiling himself/' — G. 

"Tenesmus for an hour after stool." — G. 

"Pulsation in the anus, after stool, which 
continues all day." — Raue. 

Sour diarrhoea. 

"Fetid, watery diarrhoea of scrofulous chil- 
dren." — Raue. 

" Alternate diarrhoea and constipation, from 
enlargement of the mesenteric glands." 



SULPHUR. 163 

" Chronic diarrhoea of mucous and fecal 
matter." — Raue. 

" Itching, soreness, and discharge of acrid 
fluid from the anus." 

Cutting pains before and after stool, in the 
anus. 

"Chronic diarrhoea in phthisical patients. 
Give one dose very high." — F. 

" Soreness, excoriations, exudations, and 
itching of the anus." — Raue. 

" Stool so acrid that the child becomes ex- 
coriated.' , — G. 

Lancinating pains all night in the anus. 

Urinary Organs. — Incontinence of urine ; 
urinates very often, with feeling of obstruc- 
tion in the sphincters, and great pressure on 
the bladder. 

Cloudy urine, with penetrating odor. 

Weak and slow stream of urine. 

Chronic gonorrhoea, with shooting, burning 
pains, or without pain, with discharge of white 
mucus. 

Generative Organs of Women. — " Menses 
thick, black, and so acrid as to make the 
vulva and thighs sore." — G. 

Has a cough in the evening before menstru- 
ation. 

" Pain in abdomen during the menses, as if 



164 SULPHUR. 

the intestines were strung up in knots by 
threads ; has to take a sitting posture for re- 
lief.»_G. 

" Menses too early, too profuse, and last too 
long."— G. 

" Chronic hemorrhages; she seems to get al- 
most well, when it occurs again and again for 
weeks, with weak faint spells." — G. 

" Acrid leucorrhoea, making the vulva sore." 
— G. 

" Burning in the vagina, BO violently she can 
scarcely keep still." — (I. 

" Voluptuous itching; scratching relies 
after it burning; sometimes little vesicles." 
—II. 

" After nursing, the nipple chaps and Meed-, 
with much smarting and burning. 91 — (i. 

"Profuse suppuration of the mainma\ with 
chilliness in the fore part of the day, and heal 
in the after part.'' — G. 

Chest. — " Suppressed, choking cough. 91 — (J. 

"Much rattling of mucus in the lungs; the 
cough worse in the morning." — G. 

Catarrhal symptoms become worse and worse. 

"She feels suffocated; wants the doors and 
windows open." — G. 

" Does not walk erect ; stoops or bends over 
forwards in walking or sitting." — H. 



SULPHUR. 165 

" Morning sweat setting in after walking." 
— H. 

Acute, plastic form of pleurisy. It will dis- 
perse rapidly ; use the tincture. 

Weakness in the chest in the evening. 

"Chills and fever; no reaction; stupid; con- 
stantly sinking."— G. H. W. 

An excellent remedy in chronic cases of 
ague, take all the constitutional sy mptoms. 

"Comes out of her spasms happy; at the end 
of each spasm, voids large quantities of color- 
less urine." — G. 

Dry, husky, scaly skin ; no sweat from be- 
ginning; pulse frequent; skin, especially of the 
feet, very hot ; no change from day to day, in 
cases of continued fever. 

"In all such cases Sulphur 3 m. in water 
every two hours, until sweat, which occurs al- 
ways in about twelve hours, and is followed by 
convalescence." — D. R. Gardiner. 

Chronic rheumatism, Sulphur is almost al- 
ways the first remedy to be given. 

Skin. — "After violent scratching; aching 
numbness of the skin; swelling of the skin, 
even ulceration." — B. 

In itch, Sulphur is the specific. The erup- 
tion is vesicular or pustular; much worse at 
night ; warmth of bed greatly aggravates the 
itching. 



166 SULPHUR. 

In boils, nettle-rash, and nearly all kinds of 
skin diseases, this is the first remedy to be 
thought of. 

Scrofulous people, that are frequently trou- 
bled with boils and every little scratch has a 
tendency to fester. 

" Varicose ulcers, which bleed easily, secrete 
a fetid pus, and burn and itch much." 

Rachitis, with the general constitutional 
symptoms. 

" Finds himself in the night lying on his 
back/— II. 

" Rhagades after washing/' — Lute. 

k - Bang-nails." — Liiti:. 

Extremities. — " Unsteady gait ; tremor of the 
hands."— II. 

"Standing is the most di able posi- 

tion;— II. 

"Cramps in the calves and soles, particu- 
larly at night: 1 — II. 

Heat in the soles of the feet, or cold feet 
with burning soles; wishes to find a cool pla 
for them, or puts them out of bed. 

Most of the pains are in the left side. 

"On going to sleep, one leg is suddenly 
drawn up and shot out again, particularly 
when rousing him." — Raue. 

" Child dislikes to be washed and bathed." 
— H. 



CALCAREA CARBONICA. 167 

"Hot flushes, with spells of faintness, or pass- 
ing off with a little moisture, and fainting with 
debility."— G. 

In most chronic diseases a few doses of Sul- 
phur at first will be found of great benefit. 

Adapted to lymphatic temperaments, venous 
constitutions, disposed to hemorrhoids, with 
constipation, or morning diarrhoea ; to scrofu- 
lous diseases which seem to get almost well, 
when they return again and again, and espe- 
cially to diseases caused by suppressed itch. 

"During the action of Sulphur, all excretory 
organs are brought to increased activity, dis- 
charging carbon and nitrogen from the body/' 
— H. M. M. 

CALCAREA CARBONICA. 

Impure Carbonate of Lime. 

Acts especially upon the ganglionic vegetative 
nervous system, affecting particularly the osseous 
system, producing imperfect ossification, difficult 
and slow dentition, rachitis, &c. Also affects the 
mucous, serous, fibrous, and cutaneous tissues, and 
lymphatics. It especially affects the reproductive 
organs of women. 

Marcy and Hunt say : " In constitutions in which 
we see defect in the reproductive system ; obstruc- 
tions, deposits, intumescence in the lymphatic and 
glandular systems ; dyscrasial affections of the mem- 
branous structures, of all the white structures which 



168 CALCAREA CARBONICA. 

have but little vitality or blood, and are nourished 
chiefly by lymph. Obstructions in cartilages, ten- 
dons, serous membranes, where development is ar- 
rested; obstructions in the lymphatics. In early 
infancy these structures predominate, and in them, 
Calc. carb. is specific where there is any arrest of 
the development of the organs ; imperfect forma- 
tion of the blood, as in scrofulosis. The only ca 
of hemicrania curable by it, are those caused by 
disease in the reproductive system, or in whom 
scrofula was visible in early lite. Character 

large head; bloated abdomen; narrow chest; flab- 
by, poorly developed muscles ; bones containing but 
little phosphate of lime." 

Ji. Hughes .-ays: kk It is in the large class of dis- 
eases due to disorder trf the secondary assimilation, 
that Cab*, carb. finds its curative place; where the 
assimilation of the digested food to blood uml tis- 
sue does not proceed as it should do, there are few 

agents more powerful than Calcarea for restoring 
healthy functions. The three great forms of assim- 
ilative derangement are Bcrofula, tuberculosis, and 

rachitis; in all these it is a principal remedy. It 
is the constitutional tendency that it controls, ra- 
ther than the local manifestations." 

It has a speeial and profound influence over the 
generative organs of women ; in fact, this is Cal- 
carea's greatest sphere of usefulness. 

Grand Characteristics. 

Especially adapted to the constitutional dis- 
eases of scrofulous women and children, of 



CALCAREA CARBONICA. 169 

leuco-phlegmatic temperaments, prone to affec- 
tions of the mucous membranes. 

" The assimilation of the digested food to 
tissue, does not proceed as it should do." — 
Hughes. 

" Children, with dry and flabby skin ; large, 
open fontanelles ; much perspiration in drops, 
— of the head, — which wets the pillow far 
around where the child is sleeping." — G. 

" Pale and fair children ; their muscles soft 
and flabby ; their hair dry, and looking like 
tow." — G. 

" She is very weakly in general ; walking 
produces great fatigue ; in going up stairs, is 
out of breath ; has to sit down." — G. 

" Very sensitive to the least cold air, which 
seems to go through and through her." — G. 

" Swelling over the pit of the stomach, like 
a saucer turned bottom up." — G. 

" Menses are too soon, too profuse, and last 
too long; difficult to stop menstruating." — G. 

" Leucorrhoea like milk." — G. 

" Constant aching in the vagina." — G. 

" Her feet feel as if she had on cold, damp, 
stockings, continually ; they are cold in bed." 
— G. 

Vertigo, on running up stairs. 

" Fear of going crazy, or that people will ob- 
serve her, and suppose her to be crazy." — H. 

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170 CALCAREA CARBONICA. 

"Anxiousness, shuddering, and aw <oon 

as the evening comes near." — II. 

"Despairing; hopeless of everything') with 
fear of death; tormenting all around him day 
and night. " — H. 

" As often as the patient falls asleep, the 
same disagreeable feelings rouse him." 

11 Head too large; the fontanelles not clos- 
ing."— H. 

"The head and upper part of the body sweat 
profusely." — G. 

"Headache, with an unusual accumulation 
of dandruff on the top." — (i. 

" Excessive mischievousness." — G. 

'•Cannot sleep after 3, A.M." — G. 

"Vertigo, on ascending a height. 91 — Lute, 
" Itching of the scalp ; children scratch when 

their sleep is disturbed, or they are awakened." 
— H. 

"Chronic headache, depending on brain fag; 
the pain is dull; worse in the morning; the 
head is often cold." — IIlgiies. 

Much dandruff on the scalp. 

"Excessive secretion of mucus in the ev« 
— Makcy and Hunt. 

"Troubled about an absent son; imagined 
he saw him at the bottom of the river; could 
not rest, but constantly walked about." 

u Painful and difficult urination ; the urine 



CALCAREA CARBONICA. 171 

being clear, and having a peculiar strong, pun- 
gent, fetid, odor." — J. B. Bell. 

" All objects look as if seen through a mist." 

" Long-lasting super-orbital neuralgia." 

"Pupils inclined to dilate." — Marcy and 
Hunt. 

" The tongue is sore on the tip, sides, or dor- 
sum, so that she can scarcely eat." — G. 

" Sour taste in the mouth, or of the food ; 
sour vomiting, especially with children during 
dentition ; also sour diarrhoea." — H. 

" Longing for eggs ; particularly with chil- 
dren, in sickness, or during convalescence." — H. 

u Vomiting of ingesta, which taste sour." — 
Lippe. 

" Cannot bear tight clothing around the hy- 
pochondria." — G. 

" Stools whitish and watery." — Raue. 

" Diarrhoea worse towards evening." 

" Diarrhoea, of sour smell ; putrid ; during 
dentition; generally painless." — Lippe. 

" Chronic diarrhoea ; clay-like stools." — 
Hughes. 

" Much crawling and itching in the anus." 
— G. 

" White, chalk-like stools."— G. 

" Feeling of coldness in the abdomen and 
thighs."— G. 



172 CALCAREA CARBOXK A. 



"Involuntary emissions of urine on walk- 



ing."-G. 



Urine has a brown, bloody, or white sedi- 
ment. 

"The history of the case shows that the 
menses have been too profuse, and return too 
often, and too soon." — G. 

"The least excitement causes the menses to 
return." — G. 

" Leucorrhoea like milk." — G. 

" Much moisture between the labia and 
thighs, with biting pain." — G. 

u Inflammation, redness, and swelling of the 
vulva, with purulent discharge. 91 — (i. 

u Finds it difficult to stand on account of a 
pressing down, as if the internal organs would 
press out." — G. 

"Albuminous leucorrhua. from the cervical 
canal, with great lassitude, debility, sinking, 
and trembling at the stomach, and burning 
pains in cervical canal." — Makcy and Hunt. 

"Breasts are distended; milk scanty; she 
is cold, and there seems to be a want of vital- 
ity to bring the milk forward." — G. 

" Cough, with rattling of mucus in the bron- 
chi; the cough is worse in the morning." — G. 

Chronic hoarseness. 

Glands of the neck swollen. 

The skin is dry and flabby. 



LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM. 173 

u Eruptions, white, hard, and elevated." — G. 

In fever, horrid visions when closing the 
eyes. 

" Headache, ameliorated by closing the eyes." 
— H. 

Lifting the child up, produces pains. 

" Difficult dentition with children." — H. 

11 Children self-willed ; inclined to grow fat." 
— H. 

" Growing too fat and thick with young pgo- 
ple.»_H. 

u Hard hearing after abuse of Quinine." — H. 

" Feet constantly cold and damp, as though 
she had on damp stockings." — G. 

Offensive sweat on the feet, making the soles 
of the feet raw. 

" Cramps in the toes and soles of the feet." 
— G. 

The pains are aggravated by the slightest 
touch, as from a current of air, cold or warm, 
noise, excitement, &c. 

LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM. 

Club -Moss. 

Acts especially on the great sympathetic ner- 
vous system, and is truly a vegetative remedy. 

Hughes says : " It is a purely vegetative remedy, 
affecting the three great tracts of mucous mem- 
branes, with their cutaneous continuation. The 

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174 LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM. 

digestive canal and liver is the most important 
seat of its action. " 

The kidneys and lungs are especially affected. 
I think the greatest centre for the action of Lyco- 
podium is upon the kidneys. 

Grand Characteristics. 

Red sand in the uri\ 

"I find it the very best medicine where the 
patient is suffering from an excess of lithic 
acid gravel, and look upon the copious sedi- 
ments of this nature as one of the most un- 
erring indications for its choice in dyspepsia." 
— HUGHHL 

"Terrific pain in the hack previous to every 

urination, with relief as soon as the urine be- 
gins to How." — G . 

"She has a constant sensation of satiety; 
takes no food, and if asked 'Why? 1 repli 
'She wants nothing, because she is so full, and 
that the least morsel cause- a sensation of ful- 
ness up to the throat.' n — G. 

"Much borborygmus, particularly in the 
left hypochondria." — G. 

"Cutting pain across the hypogastrium, 
from right to left." — G. 

" Constant sense of fermentation in the ab- 
domen, like a pot of yeast working." — G. 

"Constipation; almost impossible to evacu- 
ate the stools." — G. 



LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM. 175 

M Fan-like motion of the alas nasi in respi- 
ratory diseases of young people and children." 
— D. Wilson, M.D. 

Diseases of the throat, that commence on the 
right side and spread to the left. — Lippe. 

" Aggravation of the disease at 4, p.m. ; 
better after eight or nine in the evening." 
— G. 

Adapted to subacute and gradually advanc- 
ing chronic diseases, and to people with sallow 
complexion and cold extremities. 

Lycopodium is of the greatest importance in 
many of the worst cases of Typhoid fever. — 
Incarcerated flatulence, borborygmus, and tym- 
panitis, will draw attention to this remedy in 
such cases; and many other symptoms will be 
found to correspond, especially those of the 
skin, stool, urine, and the great prostration. 
Such, apparently hopeless cases, I have seen 
recover under Lycopodium high. 

"Give the tico hundredth in very rare or 
single doses (as milder and. safer in its action) 
in preference to the still higher potencies, — 
which latter I have seen act with dangerous 
violence." — Frost. 

" Great fear of being left alone." — G. 

" Observing dispositions." — Raue. 

" Mental, nervous, and bodily weakness." 



176 LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM. 

c: Dry porrigo of children." — G. 

Grayish-yellow color of the face. 

" Pain in the temples, as if they were bei 
screwed towards each other." — G. 

" Constant sense of satiety." — G. 

Sour vomiting. 

Great accumulation of flatulence in the 
small intestift 

"Slow and depraved digestion." — (l. 

"Acidity and heartburn, with unconquer- 
able sleep after dinner. * — Kai 

" Great fermentation in the abdomen, and 
discharge of much flatulence. She ber 

abdomen is like 8 yeast-pot, so great a fer- 
mentation goes On there/' — G. 

"Obstinate constipation, especially in chil- 
dren ; caused by heavy, farinaceous, and fer- 
mentable food." — (1. 

"Enteritis in children, caused by flatulent, 
indigestible food." — I!.\i 

Old hepatic congestions. — Pops. 

"Children always cry before urinating." 
— G. 

"Much red sand in the urine." — G. 

" Red sand in the child's diaper." — G. 

Renal colic, right side. 

"Profuse leucorrhoea, with cutting pains 
across the right side to the left." — G. 



LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM. 177 

" Chronic dryness of the vagina." — G. 

" Discharge of wind from the vagina." — G. 

" Sharp pains run round each labia." — G. 

" Menses too soon and too profuse." — G. 

" Nipples bleed much and are very sore." 
— G. 

Passive catarrh of the air-passages. 

" Expectoration of large quantities of pus; 
cough day and night; hectic fever; circum- 
scribed redness of the cheeks." — Raue. 

Dr. Pope says: " Few medicines are so valu- 
able in pulmonary phthisis as this, when per- 
sistently used. The cough, gastric irritation, 
exhaustion, and intercurrent attacks of pleu- 
risy, are wonderfully mitigated by it." 

Persistent catarrh, with much general weak- 
ness ; aptness to take cold. 

Chronic inflammatory diseases of the skin. 

Slow degeneration of the skin. 

" Plica polonica." — Hughes. 

u Great emaciation of the upper part of the 
body, while the lower portion is enormously 
distended." — Raue. 

One foot cold, the other hot. 

" The babe cries all day and sleeps all night." 
— G. 

"Inflammation of the ends of bones." — 
Lippe. 

" Night sweats ; perspiration cold, clammy, 



178 SILICEA. 

sour, fetid, bloody, smelling like onions." — 
Lippe. 

Disease always worse about 4, p.m., and 
better in the evening. 

SILICEA. 
Acid. 

This remedy so influences the 
ae to produce a depressing and disorganize 
tion upon the 0686008, lymphat ic, and mucous sys- 
tem-. 

Dr. Hughes Bays: "Silicea influences the nutri- 
tion, rather than the functional activity of the 
tissues, which come within its sphere of action ; it 
is hence suited to organic changes rather than to 

functional disorders. Its dec], and alow action, 

moreover, makes it appropriate to chronic rather 

than acute diseases. Silica ha- an e.xt inordinary 

control over the suppm 

mature abfi when desired, and certainly 

ducing excessive suppuration to moderate limi 
Its main sphere is in the diseases of the vegetati 

tissues and organs. I regard it as a remedy even 
more important than Calcarea for rachitis in chil- 
dren. Like most of the vegetative medicines, it 
acts powerfully upon the lymphatic glands ; pro- 
moting, when they are enlarged, either their mat- 
uration or their dispersion. It has probably some 
power over the nutrition of tin 
and has proved curative in some forms of paraly- 
sis, and perhaps also of epilepsy." 



SILICEA. 179 

Silicea has a special influence on the venous 
capillary vessels. 

Grand Characteristics. 

" Constipation before, and during menstrua- 
tion, of hard lumps, which remain long in the 
rectum, as if it had no power to expel them." 
— G. 

" Hungry, but she cannot get down food, it 
is so nauseous.'' — G. 

Paroxysms of icy coldness over the whole 
body, at the appearance of the menses, and 
icy cold feet during the menses. 

Much perspiration in children about the 
head. 

" Terribly offensive sweating of the feet." 
— G. 

She is occupied with pins, counts them, 
hunts for them, and is always worse during 
the increase of the moon. 

Adapted to chronic scrofulous suppurative 
diseases, especially to rachitic children, where 
the nutrition of an organ is assailed, rather 
than the function. 

Sanguine lymphatic temperament, and to 
children with large bellies, weak ankles, much 
perspiration about the head, and disposition to 
uncover. 

" Lymphatic swellings, with suppuration, 



180 SILICEA. 

inflammation, swelling of bones, caries, suppur- 
ating ulcers in membranous parts, ulcere of all 

kinds." — Lute. 

"The head is wet from sweating, particu- 
larly at night; likes wrapping up." — H. 

"Vertigo, falling forward after stooping, rid- 
ing,or looking up ; rises from the neek into the 
head with nausea/' — II. 

11 Yielding mind, faint-hearted, anxious 
mood." — II. 

Open fontanelh 

"Water tastes badly; vomits after drink- 
ing."— H. 

"Scrofulous children during dentition keep 

grasping at their gums continually. n — (J. 

"Taste of blood in the morning." — (i. 

" Hungry, but cannot get down the food." 
— G. 

"Particularly indicated where there are 
spinal affections, and constipation of difficult 
Stools, as if the rectum had not power to expel 
them; the stool recedes after having heen par- 
tially expelled." — G. 

"Always great eostiveness immediately be- 
fore and during the catamenia.'' — II. 

"Increased menses, with repeated paroxysms 
of icy coldness over the whole body." — II. 

" Discharge of white water from the uterus 
instead of the menses." — G. 



SILICEA. 181 

" Pure blood is caused to flow from the ute- 
rus every time the babe nurses. " — G. 

" Nipples ulcerate easily." — G. 

" Fistulous ulcers of the mammse; the sub- 
stance of the mammae seems to be discharged 
in the pus ; one lobe after another seems to 
ulcerate and discharge into one common ulcer, 
often with great pain, or there may be several 
orifices, one for each lobe." — G. 

" Silicea has an extraordinary control over 
the suppurative process, seeming to mature 
abscesses when desired, and certainly reducing 
excessive suppuration to moderate limits." — 
Hughes. 

Chronic suppuration of joints. 

" Induration and suppuration of the lym- 
phatic or glandular system in any part of the 
body." — Hughes. 

u Spongy, readily bleeding ulcers, with tor- 
pid callous edges/' — Franklin. 

u Fistulous ulcers, secreting a thin, ichorous, 
fetid, yellow fluid." — Franklin. 

" Caries of bones, with fistulous openings, 
and discharge of thin pus and bony fragments. ,, 
— Franklin. 

" Fistula lachrymalis." — Raue. 

u Diseases brought on by exposing the back 
to any slight draft of air." 

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182 HIPAB SULPHUR. 

"Want of vital warmth, even when taking 
exercise." — H. 

"Foot-sweat with rawness between the t 
or a bad odor; also complaints after checking 
it."— II. 

"Ailments following vaccination, abscess, 
&c, even convulsions/' — II. 

"Small foreign bodies under the skin or in 
the larynx. 91 — II. 

Worse every now moon. 

Specific for whitlow. 

Debilitating nighl swea 

Profuse night sweats, 6000th. — Holcombe. 

HEPAR SULPHUR. 

Especially affects tin- mucous membrane of the 
respirator] rim ; also aftects the glan- 

dular Bystem and joint-. 

(i rand Chararti ristint. 

In diseases where suppuration is inevitable. 
" The child seems croupy. decidedly so, and 
the phlegm is loose and choking." — G. 

"Rattling, choking cough, worse alter mid- 
night."— G. 

Hoarseness with aphonia. 
" Child smells sour."— G. 
The slightest injury causes ulceration. 



HEPAR SULPHUR. 183 

" Ulcers have a bloody suppuration, smell- 
ing like old cheese." — G. 

Especially after the abuse of mercury, or 
metallic preparations. 

Adapted to scrofulous diseases, where there 
is more or less suppuration, and to diseases of 
the larynx and trachea. 

Falling out of the hair. 

Headache at the root of the nose. 

Nightly pain in the skull-bones. 

Pustules on the scalp, that secrete a quan- 
tity of humor, with glandular swellings. 

" Hasty speech and hasty drinking." — H. 

" Rising in the oesophagus, as if she had 
eaten sour things." — G. 

" Sensation as if there was a fish-bone in the 
throat."— H. 

" Swollen tonsils and hard glandular swell- 
ings of the neck." — G. 

" Stomach inclined to be out of order; long- 
ing for sour or strong-tasting things." — H. 

" Green, slimy diarrhoea, of a sour smell." 
i — H. 

" Fetid diarrhoea, the child smelling sour." 
-G. 

"Laryngotracheal catarrh, either acute or 
chronic, with much hoarseness." — H. 

" Croup after dry cold wind, with a swelling 



184 HEPAR SULPHUR, 

below the larynx; with great sensitiveness to 
cold air or water/ 1 — II. 

u Cough, with hoarseness all the time; w< 
before midnight or toward morning." — II. 

"Croup, with loose rattling cough; worse in 
the morning." — G. 

Cough excited when any part of the body 

gets cold. 

" Chronic bronchitis, with tickling in the ter- 
minal ramifications of the air-] \ iolent 
bough, with sensation as if h<>t water were 
trickling through the bronchi 

bloody, frothy, tuberculous ni 

t% Sweats day and night, without relief." — II. 

"Cannot bear to be uncovered; coughs when 
any part of the body is uncovered." — II. 

"Ailments from west or Dorthwest wind. or 

soon after it, improved by warmth/ 1 — II. 
" Strumous suppuration of joints. 91 — HBXPXL. 
" Strumous enlargement of glands. especially 

where these can only be cured through suppu- 
ration, especially the tonsil.-." — Hugh] 

" Stomatitis, where suppuration seems inev- 
itable, with no other symptoms. " — G. 

Scrofulous ophthalmia, w hen disorganization 
and ulceration of the cornea is present. 

" Stinging, burning of edges of ulcers, smell- 
ing of old cheese; little pimples on smooth ul- 
cers surround the painful ulceration/' — II. 



PHOSPHORUS. 185 

u Suppuration of long-inflamed boils on the 
body, or on the limbs, commencing with blis- 
ters ; every cut or hurt suppurates." — H. 

A slight injury causes suppuration. 

Rhagades of the hands and feet. 

" Eruptions on the bends of the elbows and 
popliteal spaces." 

"Fainting, with pains." — H. 

" Anxious feeling about the heart, with pal- 
pitation, in cases of hypertrophy." — R. Koch. 

PHOSPHORUS. 

This powerful remedy acts especially upon the 
ganglionic nervous system, destroying its nerve- 
force or life ; through it producing congestion, in- 
j flammation, and disorganization of the stomach, 
small intestines, liver, spinal cord, sexual organs, 
kidneys, muscles, brain, and especially the lungs, 
blood, maxillary bones, and teeth. 

Upon the stomach and intestines Phosphorus pro- 
duces a low grade of gastro-enteritis. 

Upon the liver it has a specific and powerful in- 
fluence, producing congestion, inflammation, fatty 
j degeneration, jaundice ; or the skin becomes re- 
markably semi-transparent or waxy in appear- 
ance. 

On the spinal cord it produces degeneration, de- 
liquescence, and paralysis. And through it the 
sexual organs are first greatly excited, which is 
soon followed by complete paralysis and impo- 
tence. 

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186 phosphorus. 

Upon the kidneys it produces irritation. 001 
tion, and inflammation, resulting in a prof 
cretion of albumen and exndation-cellfl in the 

urine. 

Upon the brain it fa il influence, I 

Hempel says: "Phosphorus Beems to be in n 
tion with the element or principle in the brain 
which regulates the renovation of the aervoua tis- 
sue. As Iron plays an important pari in disei 
of the blood, bo does Phosphorus in affections of 
the nervQua system. It' the reproduction or sup- 
ply of nervous tissue Lb defi or abnormally 
altered by some cause or other, Phosphorus is, un- 
der certain circus i, the greal power which 
enables os to repair the damag 

]t does this through its action on the ganglionic 
nervous Bystem and blood. 

Upon the lung*i no remedy lias a more powerful 
and profound action, and well baa it Bhown the 
beauties of specific medication in pneumonic dis- 
eases, especially in the second Btage, typhoid form, 

with gray hepatization and purulent infiltration. 

Upon thi llood } it completely extinguishes and 

destroys its vitality, producing blood-metamor- 
phoses, which result in hemorrhages, either by 

ecchymosifl into the tissues, or by exudation into 

the cavities. 

Upon the mazill&rj) fames, Phosphorus spends a 
large share of its action ; attacking first the peri- 
osteum, producing first periostosis, which soon 



PHOSPHORUS. 187 

passes on to the bone, causing complete caries and 
necrosis. 

Grand Characteristics. 

Tall, slender people, with fair skin, san- 
guine nervous temperament, sensitive disposi- 
tion, quick and lively perceptions. 

It is especially suited to fevers, where death 
seems inevitable, in consequence of the deep- 
seated injury inflicted upon the vital forces; 
and to acute, and subacute, and chronic dis- 
eases of the brain, jaws, teeth, lungs, stomach, 
intestines, liver, kidneys, sexual organs, and 
blood. 

" Sensation of weakness and emptiness in 
the abdomen ; this distresses and aggravates 
all the other symptoms. " — G. 

" Belching up large quantities of wind after 
eating." — G. 

"Very sleepy after meals, especially after 
dinner." — G. 

" Sharp, cutting pains in the bowels, some- 
times with sour vomiting." — G. 

" Stools are long, narrow, hard, and very 
difficult to expel."— G. 

" Profuse, watery diarrhoea, pouring away as 
if from a hydrant." — Raue. 

" Sexual desire almost irresistibly strong." 
— G. 



388 PHOSPHORT 

Tightness across the chest, with a dry. t 
cough; in pneumonia, rusty sputa. 

Cold feet and legs. 

Occasional attacks of profuse hemorrha_ 

" Fearfulness, as if something were creeping 
out of every corner." — G. 

"Anxiety during thunder-storms." — H 

LASS. 

"Great depression at twilight/ 1 — G, 

Clairvoyance ; laughing against the will ; 
very sleepy during menstruation and after 
eating. 

4 * Loss of hearing, with cold extremities." — G. 

"Deprivation of sight, with great dilatation 
of the pupils, and darting pains in the e 
balk 

Attacks of sudden U indues- : objects appeal- 
veiled. 

"Small bald spot over the ear." — DouoLi 
"Hemicrania; the forehead or occiput is 

swollen ; touching the swollen part causes the 
most excruciating pain." 

"Face semi-transparent, like polished ivory." 

— Hemfel. 

" Tongue parched, dry, cracked, and covered 
black, or glazed."— Hill and Hint. 

"Thirst and dryness of the mouth, with 
great tympanitis of the stomach, and mucous 
enteritis, with complete prostration of the gan- 



PHOSPHORUS. 189 

glionic system, with typhoid condition, dry 
heat of skin, sallow complexion, cold extremi- 
ties," &c. 

" Constipation ; the feces being slender, long, 
narrow, dry, tough, and hard, like a dog's; 
voided with difficulty."— H. 

" Chronic, painless diarrhoea of undigested 
food, with much thirst for water during the 
night."— R. 

" Green and bloody passages ; the anus re- 
maining constantly open." — Holcombe. 

Watery diarrhoea in the morning; grains 
like tallow in the rice-water evacuations. 

Mucous stools ; the anus remaining open. 

Thick, turbid, and scanty urine. 

" Albumen and exudation-cells in the urine." 
— Hempel. 

Irresistible desire for sexual intercourse. 

" Impotence from sexual abuse." — Hempel. 

Nocturnal emissions without dreams. 

Discharge of prostatic juice, during hard 
stools. 

" Profuse menstruation, with sexual excite- 
ment,"— G. 

Fistulous openings and abcesses of the 
breast. 

Profuse, smarting, corrosive leucorrhoea. 

11 Leucorrhoea, acrid, drawing blisters." — 
Lippe. 



190 niosriiORUS. 

Fatty degeneration of the liver, with malign 
riant jaundice, and a weak, none sensation in 

the abdomen. 

" Cannot talk on account of pain in larvnx." 
—II. 

Green mucus in the not 

u Dry, tickling cough in the evening, with 
tightness across the chest; expectoration in 
the morning. 91 — II. 

"Cough worse coming from the warm room 
into the cold air." — II. 

u Pain in chest, with coughing; relieved by 
external pressure." — II. 

Hoarseness, with loss of voice; worse in 

evening. 

Dry, tickling cough; worse evening! 

Capillary bronchitis; severe and exhaustive 
cough. 

Tearing, irritating cough, with expectora- 
tion of mucus, pus, and Mood. 

Pneumonia, with sanguineous infiltration of 

the parenchyma, and red hepatization ; fa 
livid; hrickdust expectoration. 

" Trembling of the whole body while cough- 
ing." 

" Great emaciation." — Liitk. 
"Profuse hemorrhages; pouring out freely, 
then ceasing for some time." — Kait.. 

Degeneration and liquefaction of the brain 



CISTUS CANADENSIS. 191 

and spinal cord, producing complete paralysis 
of motion and sensation. 

" Hemiplegia from apoplexy, with formica- 
tion in the paralyzed limb." — Hempel. 

Sexual abuse, producing dorsal consumption, 
trembling, imbecility, mania, epileptic fits, and 
impaired digestion. 

Typhus, with paralysis impending. 

Fistulous ulcers, with callous edges, secret- 
ing a thin, foul pus, and of a blue appearance. 

Slight wounds bleed much. — Hahnemann. 

Dr. Sauer uses Phosphor oil, in the worst 
forms of croup, to the throat. 

CISTUS CANADENSIS. 

Bock Rose. 
Acts especially upon the lymphatic and glandu- 
lar system ; also upon the throat, nose, eyes, and 
ears. 

Grand Characteristics. 

Adapted to scrofulous subjects, with swelling 
and suppuration of glands, especially of the 
throat ; with great sensitiveness to cold air. 

" Diarrhoea after eating fruit ; after drinking 
coffee; thin, hot, yellow; worse from midnight 
till noon." — Lippe. 

" Coldness, of the tongue, — in the throat, — 
in the stomach, — in the chest, and in the ab- 
domen. Cold feet."— F. 



192 SARSAPARILLA — BAH€ UIXARIA CAHADUf 

SAESAPARILLA. 
r. 

Acts through the ganglionic system, upon the 
kidneys and lymphati m. 

Grand Ch&racterirtit 

"Urine either too often, copious and pale, 

or scanty, slimy, flaky, clayey, sandy." — H. 

"Much pain at the conclusion of passing 
urine, almost unbearable with women, also 
with men." — (i. 

"He lias to gel up two or three times in 

the night to urinate.* 1 — Bering. 

Frequent discharge of pale copious urin 

Obstinate constipation, with i to uri- 

nai 

Peeling as if the bowels would be pressed out 
during stool. 

u Pain of tips of fingers on pressure, as if ul- 
cerated, or as if salt were put into the wound." 
—II. 

"Great emaciation ; the skin becomes shriv- 
elled, or it lies in folds." — Liiti:. 

SANGTTINARIA CANADENSIS. 

Blood Hoot. 

Acts especially upon the mucous membrane of 
the lungs ; also affects powerfully the stomach and 



SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS. 193 

liver; slightly the motor and sentient nervous 
system. 

Grand Characteristics. 

Tough, rusty-colored sputa, in the second 
and third stage of pneumonia. 

" Troublesome, harassing cough, with mark- 
ed inflammatory action, where you are uncer- 
tain whether you are dealing with a chronic 
bronchitis or an incipient tuberculosis." — Hol- 

C0A1BE. 

" Breath and sputa smell bad, even to the 
patient." 

Excessive dyspnoea. 

" Circumscribed redness of the cheeks in the 
afternoon ; patient lies on his back ; the pulse 
is small and quick." — H. 

" Roundish or oval, whitish, and raised 
patches on the mucous membrane of the nose, 
mouth, prepuce, and anus." 

"Sick headache. Pain commences in the 
back of the head, rises and spreads over the 
head, and settles down over the right eye, with 
nausea and vomiting ; has to be in the dark 
and perfectly still." — H. 

Annoying flushings at the climacteric age. 



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194 KALI CARBONICUM. 

KALI CARBONICUM. 

Carbonate of J 

Acts upon the mucous membranes, especially 

affecting the mucous membrane of the respiratory 
organs; also atiects the genito-urinary organs. 

Grand Characteristics* 

Distressing, darting, stitching, shooting, cut- 
ting pains. 

••Stitching pains in the right side, com- 
mencing in the hack and going through the 
chest, which arc worse at night, when lying 
down or rising." — II. X. Maktix. M.D. 

"Stitches in the liver; worse in the cold 
air." — Maktix. 

u Dry, hard oough, especially aggrava 
about 3 a.m. 1 ' — Martin. 

Dry cough, night sweats, hectic feverj some- 
times expectorates bloody pus. 

" Great heavy aching weight in the small of 
the hack, especially during menstruation. " 

Menses bad pungent odor, and very acrid, 
excoriating the thighs, with great backache 
and sticking pains in the abdomen. 

"Feels very badly a week before menstrua- 
tion."— G. 

u Yellow leucorrhoea, with much burning 
and itching." — G. 



KALI CARBONICUM. 195 

" Constipation, with distress one or two hours 
before stool, with colicky stitching pains." — G. 

" Intense thirst, morning, noon, and night." 
— G. 

"He talks of pigeons flying in the room, 
which he tries to catch with his hands." — Raue. 

" Great aversion to being alone." — G. 

" Great dryness of the hair." — G. 

Herpes, becoming moist on scratching. 

" A blowing noise and a louder second tick 
of the pulmonary artery is heard." — Kafka. 

" When touched ever so slightly on his feet, 
he jerks them up much frightened." — Raue. 

" Dropsical affections, and paralysis of old 
people." — Lippe. 

" Dry, hard cough, at 4 a.m., with sticking 
pains in the left side."— H. M. M. 

" Swelling over the upper eyelid, in the 
morning looking like a little bag." — J. B. Bell. 

" Stinging pains in joints and inner parts." 
— Lippe. 

All the symptoms get regularly worse about 
three in the morning. 

Adapted to aged people inclined to be fleshy. 

Colic in lying-in women, characterized by 
stitching pains. — F. 

" Stitches are the most characteristic symp- 
toms."— F. 



196 KALI BICHROMICUM. 

KALI BICHROMICUM. 
Bichromate of I 

Acts through the ganglionic m upon the 

mucous membranes, the glandular system (liver 
and kidneys), fibrous tissue and skin. 

This remedy has a powerful and peculiar ef 
upon the mucous membranes, affecting more especi- 
ally those portions which an d with colum- 
nar, ciliated epithelium; these are found in the 
nares (excepting that portion to which is distrib- 
uted the olfactory), Larynx, trachea, body of the 
uterus, and Fallopian tubes. It so changes the 
functions of the mucous follicles, as to cause them 
to secrete ■ tough, f, ropy mucus, capable of 

being drawn out into tine thread.-, two or th 
feet long. 

Hughee itionof Kali bichromicum 

on the mu should be compared with 

that of Arsenic, of Mercury, and of Tartar emetic. 
It causes a marked increase in the quantity oi mu- 
cus formed, winch mucus is sometimes tough and 
stringy, and sometimes degenerates into pus. 

Higher grades of the inflammatory process i 
seen in the respiratory mucous membrane, and 
(when the poison has been swallowed) along the 

alimentary tract. In the former region, false mem- 
branes have been formed; in the latter, the ten- 
dency is towards ulceration. The portions of the 
mucous membranes chiefly affected, are the mouth, 

throat, cardiac portion of the stomach, duodenum. 



KALI BICHROMICUM. 197 

jejunum, and rectum ; the whole respiratory mem- 
brane, including the conjunctiva, and the ureters." 

Upon the liver and kidneys it produces congestion, 
going on to the stage of softening ; and exudation 
of plastic lymph. 

Upon t) . about the joints and the 

periosteum, it has a marked and powerful influ- 
ence. It also affects the cartilages, especially that 
of the nose, which it has entirely destroyed. 

Upon the skin it causes papules, pustules, and 
ulcers. 

Grand Characteristics. 

Especially adapted to fat, light-haired peo- 
ple, and to scrofulous, catarrhal, and syphilitic 
diseases. 

Discharges from the nose, mouth, throat, 
stomach, vagina, or any of the mucous mem- 
branes, of a tough, stringy mucus, which 
sticks to the parts, and can be drawn out into 
strings three feet Ions. 

Cough, with expectoration of tough, stringy 
mucus, which sticks to the throat, mouth, and 
lips; the cough is choking and croupy; worse 
in the morning. 

True membranous croup. 

Chronic hoarseness. 

Especially in chronic bronchitis, with tough, 
stringy expectoration, and burning pain in the 
trachea and bronchi. 

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198 KALI BICHROMICUM. 

Fetid discharge from the nose. 

Caries of the bones of the nose. 

"Profuse mucous discharge from the nose; 
at first it is clear water; lastly, thick, tough 
mucus; finally, the nostrils become filled with 
hard, elastic plugs. " — Hughes. (Clinkers.) 

Perfect loss of smell. 

"For chronic cold in the head, there is no 
medicine like it." — HUGHES. 

Catarrhal and strumous ophthalmia. 

Tongue coated with a thick, yellow felt 

Chronic Inflammation and ulceration of the 
pharynx, especially if of a syphilitic origin. 

" Pseudo-membranoue lesions of a diphther- 
itic nature, affecting the respiratory mucous sur- 
faces, the naivs. superior portion of the pharynx, 
larynx, trachea, and bronchial tuhes: the de- 
posits are firm in texture, apt to be develop d 
into casts, which are cartilaginous, or pearly in 
appearance, elastic, fibrinous, and more securely 
attached to the suhjacent integument*" — LlJD- 

LAM. 

Gastric catarrh, with vomiting. 

Ulceration of the stomach and duodenum. 

"In chronic intestinal ulceration, it vies with 
mercury ." — Hughes. 

" Dull pains in the right hypoehondrium, es- 
pecially when limited to a small spot, with 
whitish stools." — Hughes. 



KALI HYDRIODICUM. 199 

Bloody stools, or mucus and blood. 

Deep red urine ; complete suppression of 
urine, with dull pains in the small of the back. 

" Prolapsus uteri, seemingly caused by hot 
weather." — G. 

" Menses too soon."— G. 

Yellow, ropy leucorrhoea, that can be drawn 
out into long strings. 

In pustular diseases of the skin, it will be 
found of great value. 

" Chronic rheumatism of a cold variety." — 
Hughes. 

" Periosteal and syphilitic rheumatism." — 
Hughes. 

Large ulcers, with dark centre, and over- 
hanging edges. 

Solid eruption, like measles, over the whole 
body. 

KALI HYDRIODICUM. 

Iodide of Potassium. 

Through the vegetative nervous system, it espe- 
cially affects the mucous membranes, acting more 
powerfully upon that of the respiratory tract and 
kidneys ; it also has a profound influence upon the 
glandular and lymphatic systems. And lastly, the 
blood is more or less affected by this remedy. 

Grand Characteristics. 

Especially adapted to scrofulous people, who 



200 KALI HYDRIODICUM. 

have been thoroughly saturated with mercury; 
to secondary and tertiary syphilis, and to 
chronic rheumatism. 

lias disease of the mucous membrane of the 
mouth, respiratory organs, or kidnej 

Congestion of the brain, from suppression 
and habitual catarrhal discharge from the no 

u Complete blindness, from effusion of water 
on the brain, with dilated pupils. Btaring watery 
eyes, frequent crying out, and vomiting." — 
Frank. 

(Edema of the eyelids. 

Chronic angina faucium, with ulceration of 
the velum, in scrofulous subjects. 

Heal in the whole mouth, with swelling 

" Violent ptyalism, with irregular superficial 

ulcerations of mucous lining of the mouth ; the 
surface looks white, as if covered with milk." 

— Hempel. 

Fetid odor from the mouth. 

GumS recede from the teeth, which are Id 

u Impossible to open the mouth. v — HEMPKL. 

u Impressions of the teeth are left on the 
swollen tongue. 91 — IIkmitl. 

"Degeneration of the mucous membrane of 
the stomach, with vomiting, heartburn, emaci- 
ation, and diarrhoea." — Hempel. 

Enuresis at night, in scrofulous children. 

Profuse flow of urine. 






ELECTRICITY. 201 

" Gonorrhoea of long standing, with discharge 
of green, thick mucus, without pain, or constant 
urging to urinate ; very sensitive and irritable 
urethra." — Hempel. 

Mucous discharge from the urethra in both 
sexes. 

" Red, swollen nose, with constant discharge 
of a watery, acrid, colorless liquid. " — Hempel. 

" Watery nasal discharge, that feels cool, 
and causes no excoriation." — Hughes. 

" Painful sneezing, profuse lachrymation, in- 
jected conjunctiva, and throbbing distress in 
the frontal sinus." — Hempel. 

Chronic catarrh of the frontal sinus, in scrof- 
ulous people. 

" Dry, hacking cough, afterwards followed 
by copious green expectoration." — Hempel. 

" Mucous phthisis, with purulent expectora- 
tion, exhausting night sweats, and loose stools." 
— H. 

The best-known antidote for all the bad ef- 
fects of mercury. 

" Drinking cold milk aggravates all her 
symptoms." — G. 

ELECTRICITY. 

Electric Fluid. 
Affects both the ganglionic and cerebro-spinal 
nervous systems ; especially affecting the nerves of 
motion and sensation. There are two currents of 



202 ELECTRICITY. 

Electricity; one that flows out is called positi 
and the point of the substance or body with which 
it is connected is called the positive pole. The cur- 
rent that flows inward is called negative, and its 
point of connection with the positive pole is called 
the negative pole. The positive, or outgoing cur- 
rent, produces heat, relaxation, and ezpai the 
muscles become relaxed and expanded, and the 
nervous system prostrated. 

The inward, or negative pole's action, is dire 
opposite to that of the positive; it produces ( 
\city % contraction, and > nt ; the muscular and 

nervous systems become greatly stimulated by its 
action. 

I have seen such wonderful cures of old skin dis- 
eases and ulcers, by Electricity, I cannot hut 

lievc it does this by its action on the vegetative Of 

ganglionic nervous By stem; hut sonic claim that 

these cures arc made through its chemical action, 

"by which it is supposed to decompose and resolve 
into more simple components, unhealthy formations 

and secretions; either changing them into health- 
ful secretions, which are absorbed or excreted, or 
entirely dissipating them. It is to this action of 
galvanism that the speedy and wonderful cures of 
tumors, boils, cataracts, felons, warts, etc., is at- 
tributed." 

I must dissent from this. These cure- are not 
chemical, but dynamic, similar to those made by 
Thuja, Nitric acid, &c. 

" In health, each nerve is a perfect magnet, p< 
sessing the positive and negative forces properly 






ELECTRICITY. 203 

balanced, the brain and spinal cord being the nerv- 
ous centre. The brain, in health, is in a positive 
condition, and the current flows from it ; that is, 
from the centre to the surface. In disease, the 
electrical equilibrium of the system is more or less 
disturbed. In certain diseases the condition of the 
nervous system, throughout a portion or the whole 
of the body, is too highly exalted, and needs to be 
depressed, soothed, calmed. In certain other dis- 
eases there is a depressed state of the nerves, re- 
. quiring stimulating, exciting, elevating, to bring 
them into proper action. 

Xow, we can, by sending artificial Electricity in 
certain directions, according to the indications, 
cure these diseased conditions. 

General Treatment — If there is much excitement 
of the nervous system and congestion of blood to 
the head, the positive electrode should be gently 
passed over the upper surface of the body, com- 
mencing at the head, while the negative electrode, 
in a wet sponge, is applied at the coccyx ; or the 
negative electrode may be placed in a vessel of 
warm water, in with the feet. If there is a pros- 
trated condition of the nervous system, the elec- 
trodes should be reversed, using the positive at the 
base of the spine or feet, and the negative to the 
head and upper surface of the body. 

For the use of Electricity in specific diseases, 
the reader is referred to larger works on this sub- 
ject.* 

* Garratt's is the largest, and also the best. 



204 CAUST1CUM. 

In surgery, Electricity is being used as affair 
caustic, with wonderful utility. A fine platinum 
wire is made instantly white hot, by means of a 
current of Electricity sent through it from a bat- 
tery of sufficient power. This fine wire can be 
thrown around small tumors in the larynx, nasal 
passages, and places difficult of a and witli a 

little traction, the tumor is removed without hem- 
orrhage, and but little pain. For the removal of 
hemorrhoids and polypi, it is the remedy par 
cellence. In hemorrhages, where the bleeding ves- 
sels cannot be Ligated, the galvano-caustic will be 
found just the remedy. 

CAUSTICUM. 
Kali ( 'austicum. 

Acts upon the vegetative nervous system, espr.-i- 
ally affecting the respiratory and urinary organs; 

also, slightly affects the motor nervous system and 
skin. 

Grand Characteristics. 

" Cannot keep the upper eyelids up; they 
are nearly paralyzed, and will fall down over 
the eyes." — G. 

" Sudden and frequent loss of sight, with a 
sensation of a film before the Q\v*" — G. 

" Great melancholy ; looks at everything on 
the dark side, especially during menstruation." 

" Excessive sympathy for others." — G. 

Very yellow complexion. 



CAUSTICUM. 205 

"Burning, itching in the face, discharging 
an acrid fluid, which forms crusts when dry- 
ing." — Raue. 

" Neuralgia, right side, cheek-bone to mas- 
toid process; worse at night/' — Raue. 

Facial paralysis. 

"Constant sensation, as if lime was being 
burned in the stomach, with flatulence, water- 
brash." — Raue. 

" Pressure and fulness in the abdomen, as if 
it would burst; nourishment greatly increases 
the pain." — G. 

" Pains in the abdomen, causing her to bend 
double ; greatly aggravated by the least nour- 
ishment, or tightening her clothes." — G. 

" Obstinate constipation, with varices in the 
anus." — G. 

Very apt to have hemorrhoids, which are 
made intolerable by walking. 

" Painful pustules near the anus, discharg- 
ing pus, blood, and serum." — Raue. 

" Spasms of the rectum ; preventing walk- 
ing."-G. 

Involuntary urination when coughing and 
at night. 

" Urine loaded with lithic acid and lithates, 
with great debility." — Hughes. 

" Difficult, frequent, and painful urination." 
— Hughes. 

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206 RUMEX CRISPUS. 

" Menses too early and too abundant; after 
its cessation, a little blood is passed from time 

to time for many days, which smells badly." 
— G. 

" It is the best medicine I know of for ca- 
tarrhal aphonia.'' — Hughes. 

Chronic, morning hoarseness, with dry 
cough. 

" Weakness of voice from over-exertion. v — 
Hughes. 

Phlegm in the throat that cannot be hawked 
up, which produces nausea. 

Cough, with involuntary emissions of urine. 

Sour perspiration. 

Chronic eczema. 

Said to 1)0 very useful in small-pox. 

Glandular indurations. 

Caries of bon< 

Secondary and tertiary syphilis. 

Adapted to weak, scrofulous people, with 
yellow complexions, and to diseases of the 
respiratory organs and kidneys. 



RUMEX CRISPUS. 

Yellow Dock. 






Acts through the vegetative nervous system, 
upon the respiratory mucous membrane, more es- 
pecially affecting that of the larynx ; also affei 



CARBO VEGETABILIS. 207 

the alimentary mucous membrane, skin, and lym- 
phatics. 

Grand Characteristics. 

"Great exaltation of the mucous membrane 
of the larynx and trachea," — Dunham. 

u ; Violent, incessant, dry, fatiguing cough, 
with little expectoration; aggravated by pres- 
sure, talking, and especially by inspiring, cool 
air. and at night." — Dunham. 

" Sense of excoriation behind the sternum." 

u The left chest is more often affected than 
the right." — Dunham. 

" Brown, watery, morning diarrhoea/' — 
Small. 

CARBO VEGETABILIS, 

Vegetable Charcoal. 

Through the vegetative nervous svstem, it af- 
fects the mucous membranes, blood, and skin. 

Grand Cliaracteristics. 

Great foulness of the secretions. 

Especially adapted to adynamic diseases, 
with much putridity. 

" Patient wants more air; wants to be fanned 
all the time." — G. 

Great prostration, with Hippocratic face, cold 
breath, and cold knees in bed. 



208 CARBO VEGETABILIS. 

Gums bleed readily, and are spongy. 
Sensation as if the oesophagus was contracted. 

" The most innocent food disagrees." — G. 

" Frequent eructations, which afford only 
temporary relief." — G. 

"When eating or drinking, sensation as if 
the stomach or abdomen would burst.'' — G. 

" Much belching of sour, rancid food." — G. 

Desire for acids. 

"She eructates involuntarily a mass of tough, 
glairy mucus, which runs continually from her 
mouth." — Dr. Goullon. 

"Profuse and constant salivation of stringy 
saliva." — J. B. Bell. 

Burning distress in the stomach. 

"Cardialgia in nursing-women." — G. 

" Stomach and bowels greatly distended with 
flatulence; the gas is generated by the walls of 
the viscera, rather than from fermentation of 
the ingesta." — Hughes. 

" Slimy, fecal diarrhoea in scrofulous peo- 
ple."— G. 

Tendency to diarrhoea, rather than to con- 
stipation. 

Stools of foul blood and mucus. 

"Stool tough, scanty; not properly coher- 
ing; breaks off; afterwards difficult of expul- 
sion." — G. 



STANNUM. 209 

u Unceasing emissions of flatulence by the 
rectum." — G. 

Especially liable to hemorrhoids; they are 
large and blue. 

" Morning leucorrhoea; discharges very acrid, 
excoriating the parts." — G. 

" Aphthse of the vulva, with much itching, 
heat, and redness." — G. 

" Extraordinary rush of voluptuous thoughts." 
— G. 

Frequent emissions ; onanism during sleep. 

u Great and long-lasting hoarseness." 

" Greenish, fetid expectoration." — Jahr. 

Ulcers, secreting a foul, ichorous pus, emit- 
ting an offensive odor. 

" Icy coldness of the parts; they have a livid, 
purple look. (Gangraena senilis.) " 

Inveterate herpes. 

" Lymphatic swellings, with suppuration 
and burning pains." — Lippe. 

STANNUM. 

Tin. 

Through the vegetative nervous system, it acts 

upon the digestive, sexual, and respiratory organs. 

It also has a powerful prostrating action upon the 

' cerebrospinal system. In diseases where Stannum 

is indicated, one of the most marked symptoms 

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210 STANNUM. 

will be found to be great prostration of the animal 
nervous system. 

Grand Characteristics. 

u The pains commence lightly, increase grad- 
ually to a very high degree, and decre gain 
as slowly." — HAHNEMANN. 

"Neuralgia of the head; begins lightly and 
increases gradually to its highest point, and 
then gradually declines. 91 — HAHNEMANN. 

"Goes up stairs well, but becomes very taint 
on coming down." — G. 

Insatiable hunger. 

Vomiting of blood. 

11 Pressure in the abdomen relieves the pains 
when the child is crying with colic ; relief 

at once obtained by carrying it with its abdo- 
men resting upon the point of the nure 
shoulder." — G. 

Children are frequently afflicted with worms. 

Symptoms not relieved by stool. 

Excited sexual desire. 

"Scratching the arm produces an intolerable 

sensation of pleasure in the genital organs, 
which extends to the uterus, and produces a 
real emission." — Teste. 

" Her distress of mind ceases as soon as the 
menses begin to flow."— G. 



STANNUM. 211 



" During menstruation has hard pain in the 
malar bone." — G. 

'• Leucorrhoea, with marked loss of strength: 
the weakness seeming to proceed from the 
chest."— G. 

" Labor - pains produce great exhaustion, 
from weakness in the chest; is all out of 
breath; cannot answer questions, feels so 
weak."— G. 

" Reading aloud or talking produces great 
exhaustion." — G. 

" If she has a cough, with expectoration, 
the expectoration causes a weakness in the 
chest."— G. 

Expectoration of a sweetish taste. — F. 

" Profuse, greenish expectoration." — Doug- 
las. 

Chronic bronchitis, with profuse, greenish, 
expectoration, and great weakness. 

" Feels so weak she can hardly sit down ; 
she must drop down suddenly, but can get up 
very well." — G. 

Great weakness of the legs ; they are not 
able to support the body. 

The great prostration of the cerebro-spinal 
nervous system is remarkable, compared to the 
slight disturbance of the vegetative sphere. 



212 CARBO ANIMALIS. 

CARBO ANIMALIS. 

Animal CI 

Acts, through the vegetative nervous system, 
upon the glandular system. dig< and 

skin ; also produces great prostration of the anii 
nervous system. 

Grand (luiractcristi, 

u Low-spirited and desponding." — <i. 

Earthy-colored fa 

"Copper-colored eruptions on the face and 
body."— G. 

•■ Saltish water rises from the stomach." — G. 

u Weak, sore, empty feeling at the pit of the 
stomach." — G. 

Teeth very sensitive to the least cold air; 
looseness of the teeth, with bleeding gum 
bending, tearing pains in the teeth from salt 
food. 

••The menstrual function seems to exhaust 
her remarkably, so that she is hardly able to 
speak."— G. 

"Violent pressing in the loins, the small of 
the back, and the thighs, during the mense 
— G. 

w - Menses too soon; last too long; but not 
profuse: feels so greatly exhausted during its 
continuance, she is hardly able to speak." — G. 



ALUMINA. 213 

" Watery, acrid, burning leucorrhoea, par- 
ticularly when walking; turns the linen yel- 
low."— G. 

" Lochia too long continued; acrid; excori- 
| ating the parts, and very offensive." — G. 

Uterus swollen and hard. 

" Malignant ulcerations of the neck of the 
• womb, with foul discharges." — G. 

"Great numbness and languor in the thighs, 
I particularly during the menses." — G. 

Glands become indurated with burning and 
[tearing pains. 

Glandular diseases of a scirrhous nature. 



ALUMINA. 

Aluminum. 

Acts through the vegetative system upon the 
sexual organs, mucous membranes, and probably 
upon the spinal cord, producing paralysis of the 
motor nervous system. It produces a great dry- 
ness of the mucous membranes, especially that of 
the rectum. During menstruation, the animal sys- 
tem is greatly prostrated. 

Grand Characteristics. 

" Thinks his mind is some one else's." — G. 
" Groans at night, and says it is not him, 
and wants them to stop." — G. 






214 ALUMINA. 

" As soon as she sees blood, or a knife, wants 
to kill herself." — Douglas. 

"Stupid; thinks he is falling forward." — 
Douglas. 

"Excessive dryness of the seal]); it 
sleep; feels light, and the hair falls out." — 
J. S. Douglas. 

" Disposition to colds in the head." — Douglas, 

"Constriction of the Qe80phaga8, when swal- 
lowing; food 18 felt until it enters the stomach." 
— D. 

Great dryness of the throat. 

Specific for painter's colic. 

Constipation, from great dryness of the mu- 
cous folicles of the rectum. 

" Great inactivity of the rectum j even a soft 

stool can only be passed by great pressing and 
straining/ 1 — G. 

"Diarrhoea, from acidity of the prima \ 

in children, the stools are green," — Hi-impel. 

"She cannot pass her urine without strain- 
ing at stool; she has to strain at stool to fX 
her urine." — G. 

Hardness of the testicles. 
"Profuse, transparent, acrid leucorrhcra, run- 
ning down to the heels in large quantities 
— G. 

Leucorrhoea worse from walking. 

" Abundant discharge of mucus before the 



GRAPHITES. 215 

tenses, which are delayed, scanty, and pale." 

G. 

" During the menses, corroding urine is fre- 

ently passed day and night." — G. 

u After the menses, she is so weak in body 

d mind, that a little exercise prostrates her." 

G. 
Stitches in the left side of the vulva, ex- 

nding up as far as the chest, with throbbing 
pains in the vagina." — G. 

" Bearing-down pains, as if everything would 
fall through the vagina." — Douglas. 

Copious mucous expectoration ; tastes salty. 

" Tearing cough ; every turn of cough being 
accompanied by involuntary emission of urine, 
which reduced the patient to despair." 

" Pain in the back, as if a hot iron were thrust 
through the lower vertebrae." — Lippe. 

" Rheumatic and traumatic paralysis in gouty 
subjects." — Dr. Lobethal. 

" Always awaking with palpitation of the 
heart."— G. 

" Chronic diseases which occur in dry, thin 
subjects, and old people." — Hughes. 

GRAPHITES. 

Plumbago. 
Acts upon the skin, lymphatics, sexual organs, 
and digestive organs. It especially affects the skin 
and sexual organs. 



216 GRAPHITES. 

Prof. J. S. Douglas say-: u Tt acts more po 
fully on the female genital organs, than either Pul- 
satilla or Silicea." 

Grand Characteristic** 

" Burning, round spot on the top of the 
head."— G. 

" Congestion of the head, with roaring in 
the ears in young people. 91 — (1. 

u Phlegmonous erysipelas of the head and 
face, with burning, tingling pains." — Douglas. 

Burning of the ey< 

Black sweat-pores on the face and QO 

Breath smells like urine. 

Cachectic, earthy color of the lace. 
k * ( onstipation ; huge, difficult* knotty stools." 
— G. 

"Especially adapted to females inclined to 
obesity, and whose history reveals a disposition 

to delaying menstruation." — G. 

"Menses too late, pale, and scanty." — G. 

"Very profuse Leucorrhoea; the discharge 

occurs in gushes, day or night, and is often 
excoriating." — G. 

"She feels so weak, that it is with difficulty 
she can persuade herself to perforin her ac- 
customed duties." — G. 

" She is drowsy during the day, and does 
not sleep well at night." — G. 



GRAPHITES. 217 

u Morning sickness during menstruation." 
— G. 

" During the menses, severe pain in the epi- 
gastrium, as if everything would be torn to 
pieces." — G. 

" The ovaries are very apt to be affected." — 
Hughes. 

Deep cracks in the nipples. 

Vesicles upon the nipples. 

" Mastitis, in all cases where there are many 
old cicatrices, from former ulcerations, that the 
milk can scarcely flow : this remedy high, will 
now cause the milk to flow easily, and ward off 
the impending abscess ; although many times 
tried, has never failed me in a single case." 
— G. 

" Hoarseness and cough during the menses, 
through the day ; no cough at night." — G. 

u Rhagades, excoriations, and ulcers on the 
skin." — Hughes. 

" Eruptions, oozing out a sticky fluid." — G. 

" Burning and swelling of the feet." — G. 

" Rawness in bends of limbs, groins, neck, 
behind the ears, especially in children." — L. 

" Unhealthy skin ; every injury suppurates." 
— L. 

The great characteristic in skin diseases is, 
the eruption discharges a sticky, glutinous 
fluid. 

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218 JUGLANS CINEREA — THUJA OCCIDENTALS. 

JUGLANS CINEREA. 

Butter n 'it. 

Acts especially upon the skin and mucous mem- 
branes. 

Excellent in many skin diseases. 

THUJA OCCIDENTALIS. 
Arbor Vita* 

Through the vegetative nervous - 
dally affects thagenito-urinary organs, the rectum, 
anna, and skin. 

J)r. Wolf, Bays: 1. M Il prod ucee irritation of the 
mucoufl membrane of the genital organs, extending 
itself over all organs. 

"2. (/hanging of the naturally mildf »n into 

one of an acrid, corroding, infections quality. 

"3. Over-irritation of the nerves, with tendency 
to centripetal paralysis. 

" 4. Disturbance of the digestion and sanguifica- 
tion; tendency to destruction; dissolution of the 
fluids, and of the whole organism. " 

It produces inflammation of the prepuce and 
glans, warts, tubercles, ulcers ; in the female, leu- 
corrhcea; retarded menstruation; tig-warts, con- 
dylomata, &c, and is the great representative 
the sycotic poison (a combination of psora and syph- 
ilis). This sycotic poison renders all diseases more 
obstinate and pernicious, and arouses into action 
any and every disease man is predisposed to. 



THUJA OCCIDENTALS. 219 



Grand Characteristics. 



The great antidote to disease of a sycotic 
origin, which generally shows itself in the 
shape of warts, condj r lomata, cauliflower ex- 
crescences, on or about the genital organs and 
hairy parts of the body, especially if they are 
also syphilitic. 

" The vagina is filled with warty excrescen- 
ces, with great burning and smarting pains." 
— G. 

" She is so sensitive in the vagina that she 
cannot possibly bear an embrace." — G. 

" Profuse mucous leucorrhoea, with thin long 
warts, or fig-warts, on the face or genitals." — G. 

"Sycosic ulceration of the womb." — G. 

" Retarded menstruation." — Hughes. 

" Fig-warts and condylomata all over the 
genital organs of both sexes." — G. 

u Ulcers on the internal surface of the vulva, 
with cramp-like pain in the vulva and perin- 
eum, when rising from a seat, extending up 
into the abdomen." — G. 

"A terrible distressing pain occurs in the 
left iliac region, when walking or riding; she 
must lie down to get relief; the same pain 
occurs during her menstrual periods, and ex- 
tends into the left groin." — G. 

Red, smooth excrescences on the glans penis. 



220 THUJA OCCIDENTALS. 

"Round, flat, unclean ulcers, on the corona 
glandis; painful and burning; surrounded with 
redness." — Raue. 

Chronic gonorrhoea, with sycosis, with burn- 
ing during and between urination. 

" Copious and frequent urination, with burn- 
ing in the urethra." — Hughes. 

"Violent contraction in the anus and rec- 
tum, followed by tearing pains, as if in the 
bowels."— G. 

u Violent burning and pricking in the anus." 
— G. 

" During an attempt at stool, the pain in the 
rectum and anus is so great that she has to 
desist, she cannot pass the stool ; the Buffering 
and pain in the anus is greatly increased dur- 
ing motion." — G. 

"Feeling in the rectum as if boiling lead 
was passing through it." — Rait.. 

" Extremely scrupulous about the least 
thing." 

" The patient often feels as though she could 
not exist any longer.'' — G. 

11 Sensation as if the whole body were very 
thin and delicate, and could not resist the least 
attack; as if the continuity of the body would 
be dissolved." — G. 

" Cannot sleep after 3 p.m. and at night-" — G. 



MAGNESIA — MURIATE OF MAGNESIA. 221 

" Headache on the left side, as if a convex 
button were being pressed on the part," — G. 

Induration of the eyelids. 

Sycosic erosions of the fauces. 

Polypus of the nose and uterus. 

Dry, teasing cough. 

" Naevus maternus." — Hughes. 

For warts, and condylomata, apply the tinc- 
ture externally, and a high dilution internally. 

Teste says, " It is particularly suited to per- 
sons of a lymphatico-sanguine, or of a san- 
guine temperament. People with dark com- 
plexion, black hair, dry fibre, and not very 
fat." 

MAGNESIA. 

Epsom Salt. 

We use the muriate and carbonate more than 
any other form. 

They affect especially the epithelial cells of the 
alimentary canal and generative organs. The mu- 
riate is about the best remedy for constipation 
in the materia medica, at the 200th dilution. 

MURIATE OF MAGNESIA. 
Grand Characteristics. 

" Constipation of large difficult stools, crum- 
bling as they pass the verge of the anus." — G. 
" Hysterical complaints and spasmodic turns ; 

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222 CARBONATE OF MAGNESIA. 

many spasms day and night, with great sleep- 
lessness ; fainting fits." — G. 

" Uterine spasms, extending to the thighs." 
— G. 

" Leucorrhoea after every stool." — G. 

" Much excited at every menstrual crisis." 
— G. 

" Much weakness of the limbs." — G. 

u Continual rising of white froth into the 
mouth."— G. 

" Slow dentition, with large distended abdo- 
men."— G. 

u Dreams of robbers in the house ; on awak- 
ing will not believe to the contrary until search 
is made." — G. 

u Aptness to take cold." — Lute. 

"Swelling of glands; blood boils." — Lippe. 

CARBONATE OF MAGNESIA. 
ra n (l Ch fl ructerist irs. 

" Green, sour-smelling diarrhoea, lasting 

long time; many stools day and night." — G. 

" Green, slimy stools, resembling the scum 
of a frog-pond." — G. 

" Watery, sour stools." — G. 

u Much colic, relieved by a green, liquid 
stool."— G. 

" Sour vomiting." — G. 



DULCAMARA. 223 

"All her symptoms are aggravated every 
third week." — G. 

" Has a sore throat during every menstrua- 
tion."— G. 

" Menses dark, acrid, and thick; washed out 
with great difficulty." — G. 

" Menses flow only in the absence of pain, 
and at night." — G. 

" Much pain in the head and right shoulder ; 
she can hardly raise the arm." — G. 

" Insupportable pains during repose ; she 
must get up and walk about." — G. 

" Sad and disconsolate." — G. 

"The knees are painful when walking." 
— G. 

" (Edema of the feet up to the calves." — G. 

" Disposition to furuncles, and headache ; 
the tongue coated dirty yellow." — G. 

Face dirty, dark yellow. 

" Scirrhous indurations of the womb, dis- 
charging black clots of blood." — G. 

DULCAMARA. 

Bitter Sweet 

Acts especially upon the mucous membranes, 
producing catarrhal inflammations, similar to those 
produced in damp, rainy weather, and if used as a 
prophylactic after exposure to damp, rainy wea- 
ther, it will ward off all bad effects ; also affects 



224 DULCAMARA. 

the skin, medulla oblongata, and pneumogastric 
nerve. It paralyzes the action of the pneumo- 
gastric nerve-filaments of the lungs. It also pro- 
duces in the kidneys and system, a state closely 
resembling the first stage of Bright \s disease. 

Grand Characteristics. 

Especially adapted to catarrhal and rheu- 
matic diseases in damp, cold weather, 

" The patient's symptoms are aggrava 
when the weather suddenly becomes colder, 
especially if the weather IS damp." — G. 

u Increased secretion of the mucous mem- 
branes and glands; those of the skin being 
suppressed." — Lute. 

" Every time she takes cold has urticaria, or 
some other cutaneous affection." — G, 

" The skin is delicate and sensitive to cold, 

and liable to eruption from being exposed to 

the cold."— G. 

" The child gets worse at every cold change 
in the weather, or from exposure to cold air." 
— G. 

M Retrocession of the eruption from exposure 
to damp cold air." — G. 

" All her symptoms are aggravated by a 
cold change in the weather; even the sexual 
desire is greatly increased." — G. 

" Dropsical affections, after suppression of 
sweat, by damp, cold air." — H. 



DULCAMARA. 225 

" From taking cold; the neck stiff; the back 
painful ; the loins lame." — H. 

" Dysentery caused by cold and damp, and 
becomes worse as the weather grows colder." 
— G. 

"Diarrhoea in cold, damp weather; stools 
mucous, green, watery and whitish ; may be 
caused from repelled eruptions, chills, or teeth- 
ing."— G. 

" On awaking in the morning giddy and 
dizzy; dark before the eyes; trembling and 
weakness." — H. 

" Inclination to scold without being angry." 
— H. 

" Cannot find the right word for a thing." 
-H. 

" Inarticulated speaking, from a swollen 
tongue, but talks incessantly." — H. 

U If cold air chills him, his tongue gets lame, 
and even the jaws". — H. 

" After the disappearance of tetters in the 
face, face-ache and violent asthma." — H. 

" Always as a forerunner of the catamenia 
i a rash appears on the skin." — Gosewich. 

Suppression of the menses in damp, cold 
weather. 

" Lochia suppressed by cold or dampness ; 
and the quantity of milk much diminished." 
— G. 



226 CORALLIUM RUBftUM. 

"They have to cough a long time to expel 
phlegm, especially in infants and old people, 
from threatened paralysis of the vagi." — 
Hughes. 

" Oppression of the chest from mucus." — 
Lippe. 

" Tetters, oozing watery fluid ; bleed after 
scratching." — II. 

" Thick, brown herpetic crusts on the face, 
forehead, temples, and chin, with reddish 
borders, bleeding when scratched." — G. 

" Small furuncles on places formerly hurt 
by concussion." — Jkanes. 

" Nettle-rash, with much itching; after 
scratching, it burns, increases in warmth, dis- 
appears in cold, with gastric fever." — II. 

" Exostosis on the upper part of the right 
tibia, with bluish-red spots, suppurating linn] 
— H. 

CORALLIUM RUBRTJM. 

Red CoraL 

Affects especially the respiratory ganglion of 
the medulla oblongata and the pneumogastric 
nerve, in its distribution, producing spasmodic 

convulsive cough. 

Grand Ch a ra cter ist i rs. 

Violent, spasmodic cough, so violent that 



psorin. 227 

children lose their breath, and grow purple 
and black in the face. 

" Pertussis in children that take very little 
food or drink." — G. 

" Nervous, hysterical cough." — Hughes. 

" Trickling of mucus from the posterior nares 
into the fauces." 

" Laryngismus stridulus, and chronic con- 
vulsive cough." — Teste. 

L 

PSORIN. 
Grand Characteristics. 

" Profuse perspiration from the least exertion, 
and at night, with great debility." — J. B. Bell. 

11 Its great field is debility, independent of 
any organic disease." — J. B. Bell. 

"Very offensive, dark brown, thin fluid 
stools."— P. P. Wells. 

u When well chosen remedies do not act, and 
the patient shows a psoric taint, give Psorin." 
— H. 

" Great weakness ; debility, from loss of 
fluids, or remaining after severe acute dis- 
eases." — Lippe. 

" The patient is hopeless, and despairing of 
recovery.'' — Lippe. 

" Vertigo, with headache." — Lippe. 

" Headache, as from a heavy blow on the 
forehead, waking him at night," — Lippe. 



228 psorin. 

" Dry, or moist, fetid, loathsome eruptions 
on the head." — Lippe. 

Pimples and ulcers on the face. 

Corners of the mouth sore. 

" Inveterate cases of itch ; repeated outbreaks 
of single pustules, after the main eruption 
seems gone." — H. 

" Dry, tetter-like eruptions in the hollow of 
the knees." — Raue. 

" Urticaria, after suppressed itch, comes after 
every exertion." — Raue. 

" Moist, itching, condylomata." — G. 

Stools liquid, mucous, or bloody. 

Dry coughs, with shortness of breath. 

" Profuse colliquative sweats.' 1 — Lippe. 

Better when lying quietly. 

" Used in cutaneous affections, diarrhoea, and 
complications of typhoid lever." — Frost. 

In diseases where sulphur is indicated, but 
fails to act. 

"Sitting aggravates the dyspnoea (asthma) 
and pain in the heart." — Lippe.* 

* A full rendering of this important, and truly valuable, but 
much neglected remedy, may be found in this author's <4 Text- 
Book " of Materia Medica. 






MERCURIUS. 



229 



GROUP V. 



Mercurius, and its va- 
rious preparations, 

Iodine, and its com- 
pounds, 

Chlorine, and its com- 
pounds, 

Bromine, and its com- 
pounds, 

Ammonium, 

Podophyllum, 

Iris versicolor, 

Phytolacca, 



Arsenicum, 
Sepsin, 
Leptandria, 
Stillingia, 
Aloes, 
Argentum, 
Spongia, 
Baryta carb., 
Croton tig., 
Aurum, 

Potassium, in its vari- 
ous forms. 



Remedies of this group have for their starting- 
point of action, the glandular and lymphatic sys- 
tems, and may be called the glandular group. 
They also affect, powerfully, the mucous mem- 
branes, and, in fact, about the whole organism. 
1 They also constitute the great forces we have to 
wield against that malignant and filthy miasm, 
syphilis, and consequently are our anti-syphilitic 
glandular group. 

MERCURIUS. 

Quicksilver. 

The effects of Mercurius corrosivus, Mercurius 
vivus, Mercurius solubilis, and Mercurius dulcis, 
resemble each other so closely that I shall include 
them all under the above heading. 

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230 MERCURIUS. 

Mercury, through the vegetative nervous system, 

affects, more or less, every tissue in the body, bat 
has for its grand starting-point of action, the epi- 
thelial cells of the lymphatic glands ; bile-cells, and 
the whole of the epithelial cells of the digestive 
apparatus, increasing and disordering their func- 
tions. 

It also especially affects the glandular system ; 
the mucous membranes; the serous membranes; 
the fibrous tissue ; the dermoid tissue ; the nervous 
tissue ; the osseous tissue, and the blood. 

Upon the glandular syst m, especially the salivary 

glands and liver, through the peripheral ramifica- 
tions of the nerves that preside over secretion. 

Small doses <>t" Mercury so irritate these peripheral 
nerves, as to cause constantly increased secretion of 
saliva or bile. Vwy large doses carry the irrita- 
tion beyond the secreting-point, and then we have 
acute congestion, diminished secretion, icterus, in- 
flammation, and organic changes, such as profuse 
salivation. u The tongue sometimes projects from 
the mouth, in consequence of its greatly augmented 
bulk, and is covered with a thick, Boft, yellow- 
white fur, extremely offensive to the smell; the 
parotid and submaxillary glands become much 
enlarged, and painful; the patient cannot open his 
jaws; swallows with great difficulty and pain, and 
is wholly unable to articulate ; the head requi] 
to be supported on a pillow, and the saliva runs in 
streams from the mouth ; the odor of the breath 
i3 insupportably fetid, and sometimes scents the 
whole apartment ; ulceration of the gums, cheeks, 



MERCURIUS. 231 

and tongue takes place, with occasionally copious 
and exhausting hemorrhage ; the teeth loosen and 
fall out ; even gangrene of the soft parts and ne- 
crosis of the alveolar processes sometimes occur ; 
and in not a few instances, death has taken place, 
or recovery has been attended with revolting or 
very inconvenient deformity. One of the greatest 
dangers is from hemorrhage, though a fatal result 
may also be owing to the joint effect of gangrene 
and a depraved state of the blood. Xot only is the 
salivary secretion increased, sometimes enormously, 
but there is, perhaps, not one of the secretory func- 
tions which is not liable to be similarly affected, 
though rarely in an equal degree ; the hepatic se- 
cretion is often energetically stimulated ; a true 
cholera morbus, with copious vomiting and purg- 
ing of bile." — "Wood. 

It also affects the pancreas in a manner analo- 
gous to its action on the salivary glands. The in- 
creased secretion of bile, and of the epithelial 
cells of the digestive apparatus, cause watery and 
bilious stools. But if the dose is a large one, the 
stools, instead of being watery, are mucus and 
blood, or pure blood, with violent tormina. 

Upon the mucous membranes, it produces destruc- 
tive ulceration, especially of the mouth and fauces ; 
small doses greatly augment the secretion of mucus. 
It seems to affect the colon and rectum more than 
the small intestines. 

Upo?i the skill, it produces eruptions of the vesic- 
ular and pustular type ; the parts are much swollen 



232 MERCURIUS. 

and raw. Sometimes it produces profuse perspira- 
tion. 

Upon the nervous system, it especially affects the 
ganglionic nervous system, destroying its nutritive 
force to its very foundations. Also affects the 
motor nerves, producing tremors. 

Upon the osseous tissue, it especially affects the 
periosteum, producing periostitis, and caries of the 
bones. 

Upon the serous membranes, il dally affi 

the peritoneum, producing inflammation, and effu- 
sion of serum into its sac. It also slightly affift 
the arachnoid membrane. 

Upon the blood: Dr. Headland says: " By some 
inscrutable, chemical power, whose agency we 

know nothing of, it is able to decompose the blood ; 
by some destructive agency, it deprives it of one- 
third of its fibrin, one-seventh of its allmmen, one- 
third or more of its globules, and at the same til 
loads it with a fetid, fatty matter, the product of 
decomposition." 

" Hence we have, as a result of the diminished 
fibrin, ecchymoses and hemorrhages ; as the sign 
of the absent corpuscles, the anaemia of which we 
have read in our Watson, and the peculiar fetor 
of the secretions." — Hughes. 

Mercury is the great antidote for the sy])hilitic 
miasm, or poison, and has cured millions of cases, 
both primary and secondary in form. Its action 
upon the genito-urinary organs very closely resem- 
bles that of syphilis. 



MERCURIUS. 233 



Grand Characteristics. 



All the symptoms are worse at night, and 
in damp, rainy weather. 

Much perspiration accompanies most com- 
plaints, but does not relieve. 

" Cold, clammy sweats on the thighs and 
legs at night." — G. 

" The parts are much swollen, with a raw, 
sore feeling ; worse at night." — G. 

Glandular swellings. 

Hepatic diseases, with much jaundice. 

Very fetid breath. 

" The gums bleed, and are inclined to ulcer- 
ate about the teeth." — G. 

Teeth sore and loose ; some of them are too 
long. 

Odontalgia ; worse at night, with periosteal 
inflammation and ulceration. 

Teeth all feel on edge* 

Profuse flow of saliva. 

Saltish, metallic taste, 

Ked tongue, with much burning and intense 
thirst. 

" Moist tongue, with great thirst." — G. 

" Swelling of the tongue, which is covered 
with a whitish, thick; tenacious coat, that is 
detached in shape of little skins."— Hahne- 
mann. 

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234 MERCURIUS. 

" Grayish ulcers on the inner surface of the 
lips, cheeks, gums, tongue, palate." — Hahne- 
mann. 

"Ulceration of the tonsils." — Hahnemann. 

" False membranes; grayish, thick, with 
shred-like borders, adherent or free, but of a 
marked consistence when they are attached." 
— Hahnemann. 

Salivary glands greatly swollen, with ex< 
sive secretion of saliva, and breath extremely 
fetid. 

" Very sensitive about the pit of the stomach 
and abdomen." — G. 

Inflammation of the liver, with great ten- 
derness of the liver, and much jaundice. 

"Much colic; relieved by a bloody stool, 
with tenesmus." — G. 

" Faint, sickish pain in the abdomen, en- 
tirely relieved by a muco-sanguinolent stool, 
with severe and prolonged tenesmus." — G. 

11 Mucous or muco-sanguinolent stools, with 
severe and prolonged tenesmus/' — G. 

"Yellow, or mucous, and bloody or dark- 
green stools, with tenesmus." — G. 

For mucous and serous diarrhoeas in chil- 
dren, Mercurius dulcis is the specific. 

Urine scanty and red, with strong smell. 

Urine highly albuminous. 

Suppression of urine. 



MERCURIUS PROTO-JODATUS. 235 

"Prolapsus of the vagina, with sensation of 
great rawness ; worse at night." — G. 

" Itching, burning, smarting, corroding leu- 
corrhoea, with sensation of rawness in the va- 
gina; discharges of flocks of pus and mucus, 
large as hazelnuts ; worse at night." — G. 

" Pain in the mammae, as if they would ul- 
cerate at every menstrual period." — G. 

" Ascarides creep out of the anus, and can 
be seen on the perineum and buttocks, even at 
night in bed." — G. 

" Lumbricoides escape easily and freely, and 
the abdomen is hard and distended." — G. 

" Watery vesicles and blotches ; turn yellow 
and maturate." — G. 

Ulcerations and eruptions are swollen, and 
have a raw appearance. 

Adapted to bilious fevers and hepatic dis- 
eases, in lymphatic or scrofulous temperaments, 
and especially to syphilitic diseases. 

Merc. cor. is especially adapted to the dis- 
eases of men, and Merc, vivus, sol., and dulcis, 
to those of women and children. 

MERCURIUS PROTO-JODATUS. 

Iodide of Mercury. 

Affects especially the lymphatic and glandular 
system, particularly of the throat, including its 
mucous membrane. Its action upon the system is 



236 MERCURIUS PROTO-JODATUS. 

somewhat similar to Mercury and Iodine, but not 
exactly similar to either. It affects more or less 
the whole organism. 

AVood and Bache say: "It should never be 
given at the same time with Iodide of Potassium, 
which converts it immediately into Biniodide and 
Metallic Mercury." 

Grand Characfrristi* s. 

Its grand sphere of usefulness is in scrofu- 
lous diseases of the glandular and lymphatic 
system; in diphtheritic affections and second- 
ary syphilis. 

"It is the only form of Mercury that ought 
to be used in induration of the parotid and 
cervical glands and tonsils, when these condi- 
tions attend scarlatina and measles. 91 — Dr. 

Freleigh. 

" Diseases of the glands, acute or chronic; 
conglobate or conglomerate; swelling of the 

parotids and tonsils during scarlatina." — Dr. 
G. W. Cook. 

"Enlargement, engorgement, or torpor of the 
liver or spleen during lexers, particularly those 
of a typhoid type." 

" Enlargement of the inguinal glands and 
testicles during gonorrhoea or lues." — Cook. 

" Tabes mesenterica ; ganglionitis." — Cook. 

" Excessively tired feeling of the whole body, 
especially of the limbs; indisposition to do any- 



MERCUMUS PROTO-JODATUS. 237 

thing, and desire to lie down, with dull, ach- 
ing pains in forehead and bones of the face." 

" Always worse during rest; better when 
exercising actively." 

" Worse in a warm room ; better in the open 
air. 

" Symptoms disappear during care and anx- 
iety; soon as relieved, symptoms appear more 
violently." 

Dizziness while riding and when rising from 
a chair. 

Dull headache, affecting the whole head. 

" Neuralgia of the left side of the head." — 
Blakely. 

" Sharp, throbbing, boring pains, from with- 
in outwards, deep in the left ear." 

Soreness of the bones of the face, with head- 
ache. 

" The headache is always on the top of the 
head or right side." 

Great soreness and stiffness of the neck. 

" Great deal of mucus in the nose ; much of 
it descends through the posterior nares into 
the throat." 

" Polypus of the nose." — Hempel. 

" Thick, yellow coating at the base of the 
tongue; the tip and edges bright -red." — 
Blakely. 



238 MERCURIUS PROTO-JODATUS. 

Tongue coated with a thick, yellow, dirty 
coating. 

Teeth feel too long ; very painful when 
closing the jaws. 

"The functions of the mucous follicles of 
the entire cavity, including those at the root 
of the epiglottis, are so disordered as to cai 
them to yield an opaque, viscid, and tough 
substance, which is sometimes expectorated 
with great difficulty. 91 — Cook. 

"The surface of the mucous memhrane is 
raw. the epithelium being entirely destroyed." 
— G. AV. Cook. 

11 Pseudo-membranes located upon the ton- 
sils, tongue, uvula, velum palati, pharynx, or 
some portion of the alimentary tract." — LuD- 

LAM. 

u The deposit should he of limited extent, of 

feeble organization, transparent, pellicular, al- 
buminous, and easily detached." — R. LuDLAM. 

"To those cases in which there is hut a 
feeble effort at a reorganization of false mem- 
brane, when it has been removed or dropped 
off spontaneously." — LUDLAM, 

It especially affects mucous membranes cov- 
ered with squamous epithelium. 

u The buccal, submaxillary glands, and ton- 
sils, are enlarged, inflamed, painful, throbbing, 
with abundant flow of tough saliva. r — Cook. 



ARUM TRIPHYLLUM. 239 

Great thirst for water in the evening. 

Pain in the liver, with dizziness all day ; the 
pain proceeds from the right to the left, pro- 
ducing dizziness and nausea. 

Colic, followed by soft, yellowish-brown 
stools. 

Copious, very thin, brown stools, accompa- 
nied by froth and wind; preceded by cutting 
pains in the abdomen. 

Stools in the daytime are copious, soft, and 
of a dark or light-brown color ; the stools at 
night are scanty, hard, and black. 

Stools every evening about 10 p.m. 

Urine dark, red, and copious. 

Sharp pains in the chest. 

Very troublesome itching over the whole 
body. 

Deep bone-pains, especially at night. 

ARUM TRIPHYLLUM. 

Indian Turnip. 

Affects the mucous membrane of the digestive 
apparatus, especially that of the tongue, buccal 
cavity, and fauces. The fresh plant is an acrid 
poison, causing violent inflammation of the buccal 
mucous membrane, tongue, and fauces ; rapid tume- 
faction of the tissues takes place, with a feeling as 
if a thousand little needles were being run into the 
tongue and lips, superficial ulceration, acute stoma- 



240 ARUM TRIPHYLLUM. 

litis, salivation, oedema of the glottis, vomiting, 
diarrhoea, and convulsions. It also slightly affects 
the respiratory organs and kidneys. 

Gran d Ch a ra ctcrixt ics. 

" Discharge of burning ichorous fluid from 
the nose, excoriating the nostrils and upper 
lip." — Lippe. 

"Nose stopped up; can only breathe with 
open mouth. " — Lippe. 

"The corners of the mouth, buccal cavity, 
and even the throat, become raw and sore, 
emitting blood ; so sore, in fact, that the pa- 
tient refuses all food and drink, in consequence 
of the Buffering occasioned by mastication or 
swallowing." — (i. 

" Throat sore ; feels as if excoriated ; cannot 
swallow." — Lippe. 

" Excessive salivation, saliva acrid." — Lippe. 

"Raw condition of the mouth and throat; 
putrid odor emanating from the mouth, and if 
it be a case of fever, the fever is very intern 
The thirtieth potency, or higher, in water, will 
speedily produce a gratifying change, and the 
patient will advance rapidly to recovery ." — G. 

" Swelling of the submaxillary glands/' — 
Lippe. 

" Tongue sore, red, papillaa elevated." — 
Lippe. 



IODIUM. 241 

" Frequent discharge of abundant, pale 
urine." — Lippe. 

"Hoarseness; voice uncertain, and chang- 
ing continually." — Lippe. 

" An excellent remedy in clergyman's sore- 
throat." — Lippe. 

"Accumulation of mucus in the trachea." 
— Lippe. 

" Exanthema like scarlet rash ; the skin peels 
off afterwards." — Lippe. 

In the higher dilutions it is especially valu- 
able in scarlet rash. 

Dr. Lippe says, " It should not be given in 
low potency or repeated often, as bad effects 
often follow." 

u After a long paroxysm of cough, he raises 
mucus, traversed with yellow threads." — J. S. 
Douglas, M.D. 

IODIUM. 

Iodine. 

Acts through the ganglionic vegetative system 
upon the glandular system, especially affecting the 
thyroid and mesenteric glands, lacteal vessels, 
liver, pancreas, mammae, ovaries, and testicles. It 
also affects the mucous and serous membranes, 
skin, respiratory organs, heart, head, the glandular 
or secreting portion of the uterus, stomach, blood, 
and the motor and sentient nervous system. 

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242 iodium. 

Upon the glandular sytfem, Dr. Hughes says, k - Its 
true action is one of a depressant character, exerted 
upon the lacteal vessels and mesenteric glan 
Giving a sluggish taking up of the fatty elements 
of the food by the lacteals, and an insufficient 
elaboration of their contents by the mesenteric 
glands, and we have at once a most important 
channel of nutrition choked up and rendered use- 
less. The fatty aliments being those taken up by 
the lacteals, the emaciation becomes more rapidly 
apparent than if it had been the albuminous con- 
stituents of the diet whose Bupply was cut off. 
The action on the glands, of which the emaciation 
of Iodine is thus a prominent instance, displays 
itself also in tin* salivary glands, the liver, the 
glands of the generative Bystem, and the thyroid. 
Salivation is produced by Iodine, more frequently 

than by any other drug >ave Mercury. 

" Upon (he glands oftfi 
a depressing and atonizing influence. The mamma 
and testes have more than once wasted and disap- 
peared under its use ; and a diminution of the func- 
tional energy of the ovaries makes it probable that 
these are similarly affected. It has caused barren- 
ness in young females previously prolific, and in 
full iodism the menses are commonly suppi 
less often becoming profuse and watery." 

No remedy has a greater aetion upon the thyroid 
gland. 

It affects the whole of the mnroas membranes, 
but acts more especially upon that of the respira- 
tory tract. 



iodium. 243 

Upon the skin it produces pustules and an ery- 
thematous eruption. 

The blood it causes to become thin and watery. 

Upon the motor system it causes trembling of the 
extremities. In the sentient, we have illusions of 
the sense of touch, partial loss of vision, and deaf- 
ness. It has a great influence over the action and 
nutrition of the heart. 

Grand Characteristics. 

Scrofulous people, with alow, cachectic state 
of the system. 

" Scrofulous women, with dwindling and fall- 
ing away of the mammae." — G. 

" Mammas hang down heavily, and lose their 
fatness."— G. 

" Acute pain of the mammae, developed by 
the inflammation of the uterus ; they are very 
sore.'— G. 

" There is a remarkable and unaccountable 
sense of weakness and loss of breath in going 
up stairs." — G. 

" Great weakness during the menses, par- 
ticularly when going up stairs." — G. 

" Long-lasting uterine hemorrhages." — G. 

"Uterine hemorrhage after every stool, 
with cutting pains in the abdomen, loins, and 
back."— G. 

" Premature and too copious menses, with 



244 iodium. 

goitre, dwindling away of the breasts, and 
great weakness when going up stairs." — G. 

" Leucorrhoea, corrosive even of the thighs 
and linen ; w T orse during the menses." — G. 

" Continual empty eructations, from morn- 
ing till evening, as if every particle of food 
was turned into air." — G. 

"Continual taste of salt in the mouth." — G. 

" Tabes mesenterica, with rapid emaciation, 
night sweats, slow fever, dry laryngeal cough, 
diarrhoea, &c." — Hughes. 

" Phthisis pulmonaliu, with constant tick- 
ling and inclination to COUgh, in the windpipe, 
and under the sternum; expectoration of trans- 
parent mucus, streaked with blood; morning 
sweats; emaciation; wasting lever; rapid pulse; 
diarrhoea; and in females, amenorrhoea." — 
Hughes. 

" It appears capable of doing everything, 
but checking the deposition of fresh tubercle." 
— Hughes. 

"Extension of a sore throat along the Eus- 
tachian tube, causing catarrhal deafness." — 
Hughes. 

Membranous croup in healthy subjects. 

u Chronic congestive headaches and vertigo, 
especially in old people." — Hughes. 

Bronchocele from chronic irritation, causing 



CHLORINE — BROMINE. 245 

hypertrophy of the gland. It is the best rem- 
edy for this disease we have. 

" Emaciation with good appetite." — Lippe. 

" Chronic rheumatism in joints without 
swelling ; worse at night." — Lippe. 

Bad effects of mercury. 

Induration and swelling of the uterus, es- 
pecially affecting cervix uteri. 

Face, dark-brown color, or paleness alter- 
nating with redness. 

CHLORINE. 

Characteristics not known. It is useful in dis- 
| eases of the respiratory organs, and putrid, septic 
diseases. 

BROMINE. 

Brominum. 

Acts especially upon the respiratory organs, 
skin, glands, and bowels. Affects mostly the left 
side. Most important in croup. 

Grand Characteristics. 

All the symptoms are worse from evening 
to midnight, and during rest; better during 
motion. 

Spasms of the larynx. 

Suffocating cough, with hoarse, whistling, 
croupy sound. 

Impaired respiration, with rattling, wheez- 

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246 KALI BROMIDUM. 

ing, and gasping, with false membrane in the 
trachea. 

Much rattling of mucus in the larynx ; when 
coughing, heat of the face. 

Extensive hepatization of the lower lobes of 
the lungs. 

"Colic as if the abdomen would bunt 91 — G. 

"Loud emissions of wind from the vagina. 
— G. 

" Membranous dysmenorrhea." — G. 

Malignant erysipelas, and boils. 
"Swelling and induration of glands." — Lute. 
"Adapted to juvenile subjects, with light 
hair, blue eves, and fair skin." — G. 

KALI BROMIDUM. 

Bromide of I ' />. 

It especially affectfl the throat and generative 
organs, lower portion of the Bpinal cord, and gland- 
ular system. It also attects the cerebrospinal sys- 
tem, ganglionic system, and respiratory organs. 

G ra n tl Oh ft ra ct eristics* 

Anaesthesia of the whole surface, and loss of 
power of the lower extremities. 

" Complete anaesthesia of the throat, so that 
the finger may be carried to the base of the 
tongue, touch the amygdala or posterior nares, 
and even tickle the uvula, without inducing 



AMMONIUM CARBONICUM. 247 

any effort at vomiting or deglutition." This 
may facilitate the use of the laryngoscope in 
operating on the throat. 

" Blind, intensely painful varices, with black 
stools." — Hale. 

Spermatorrhoea from irritation of the spinal 
cord, with paralytic symptoms. It is one of 
my best remedies for this disease. No remedy 
controls the nightly emissions better than this. 

Induration of the womb. 

Epileptic fits from sexual irritation. 

In spasmodic cough. 

In long-lasting scrofulous ulcerations, given 
in the crude form, it is of great value. 

AMMONIUM CARBONICUM. 

Carbonate of Ammonia. 

Acts upon the spinal and ganglionic nervous sys- 
tems ; through these nearly every organ in the body 
has its functions increased for a short time ; more 
especially affecting the lungs, heart, muscular 
system, secretions of the mucous membranes and 
skin. It also has the power of liquefying the 
blood. 

Grand Characteristics. 

The moment he falls asleep he is aroused 
again for want of breath. 
Face pale. 
Nose obstructed. 



248 PODOPHYLLUM PELTATUM. 

Vast hemorrhages from the bowels. 

Tendency to gangrenous ulceration. 

Urine acrid, excoriating the part- 

u Violent and acrid leucorrhcea." — G. 

Menses composed of black clots, premature 
and abundant. 

"At every menstrual period di- _es blood 

from the bowels." — G. 

Dyspiura from retrocession of an eruption. 

" Incessant cough, excited by a sensation si 
of down in the larynx." — BuGHtt. 

"Adapted to scurvy and spanaunic diseases." 

— Euohs& 

Affects the right side of the body more thai 
the left 

PODOPHYLLUM PELTATUM. 

M 

Acta through the ganglionic dally 

upon the glandular system of the intestinal canal, 
and its mucous membrane. Also affects the mus- 
cles of the bowels. The rectum, small into 
and stomach arc violently inflamed by its action, 
accompanied with vomiting, purging, violent colic, 
dysentery, tenesmus, and prolapsus ani. The he- 
patic secretion is greatly augmented, urine dark 
color, &c. Sometimes it has produced salivation. 

Grand Characteristics. 

Morning diarrhoea; stools watery and green ; 
or, they may be natural, but exhaustive. 



PODOPHYLLUM PELTATUM. 249 

Prolapsus ani from debility. 

"Hemorrhoids, with prolapsus ani and morn- 
ing diarrhoea/' — G. 

Severe colic every morning, with stools of 
blood and green mucus. 

" Green, sour stools in the morning." — G. 

" Flatulence during dentition, with green, 
sour stools in the morning." — G. 

" Black stools, only in the morning." — Hale. 

" Severe straining during stool, with emis- 
sions of much flatulence ; mucous stools, with 
spots and streaks of blood ; thirst, but no ap- 
petite." — Dr. E. P. Angel. 

"Dysenteric diarrhoea, depending upon in- 
flammatory irritation of the rectum." — Hughes. 

" Food turns sour, with belching of hot flatus, 
which is very sour." — Raue. 

Vomiting, with severe spasms of the stom- 
ach ; vomits bilious matter, mixed with blood. 

u The patient is constantly rubbing and 
shaking, with his hands, the hypochondriac 
region." 

Has an extensive reputation for the expul- 
sion of gall-stones. 

" Biliousness, with nausea and giddiness ; 
bitter taste, and risings ; tendency to bilious 
vomiting and purging, with dark urine." — 
Hughes. 

" Prolapsus uteri ; particularly following par- 



250 IRIS VERSICOLOR. 

turition ; with prolapsus ani, accompanied with 
exhausting, frequent, but natural stools; more 
in the morning." — Raue. 

IRIS VERSICOLOR. 

Blue Flag. 

Through the ganglionic system it especially af- 
fects the glandular system, and upper portion of 
the alimentary canal, but affects all partfl of the 
digestive apparatus. It causes incn icretioo 

of the Balivary glands, pancreas, liver, and epithe- 
lial cells of the alimentary canal: accompanied 
with vomiting, and profuse watery diarrhoea, little 
inclined to run into intlammat ion. No remedy has 
a more specific action upon the pancreas than Iri8. 
I believe that to he its starting-point of action in 

the Bystem. No remedy produces such hurning 

agony in this gland, as does this one. All the 

animals T poisoned with it. had genuine inflamma- 
tion of this gland. It also has a profound action 
upon the lymphatics and skin. 

Grand Charactcvisths. 

The pains caused by Iris are of a sharp, cut- 
ting character, of short duration, and change 
often. 

Headache in the forehead and eyes ; more 
on the right side; with distressing vomiting of 
sweetish mucus or bilious matter ; aggravated 
by rest. 



IRIS VERSICOLOR. 251 

For gastric sick-headache it has no equal. 

Neuralgia of the head, eyes, and temples ; 
pains, cutting in nature, of short duration, 
with vomiting of sweetish water or bilious 
matter. 

Salivation, with profuse flow of saliva. 

" Gums and tongue feel as though covered 
with a greasy substance." — Lippe. 

Great burning distress in the epigastrium ; 
at the same time the mucous membrane of the 
-mouth burns like fire. 

Burning distress in the stomach, with vom- 
iting, watery diarrhoea, and great prostration. 

Violent pains in the bowels before vomiting 

or diarrhoea. 
1 

Watery diarrhoea ; worse at night, with great 

debility. 

Severe burning in the anus, with watery di- 
arrhoea. 

In colic, or, as Dr. Kitchen has it, " Grum- 
bling bellyache," it is very useful. 

Cholera morbus, with vomiting ; grumbling 
pains in the bowels, and watery diarrhoea. 

Urine very high-colored and scanty. 

Seminal emissions, with amorous dreams. 

Influenza; constant sneezing ; sharp, bearing 
pains in the centre of temples; light, mushy, 
painless diarrhoea. — C. H. W. 

In pustular skin diseases, especially if on 



252 PHYTOLACCA DECANDRA. 

the scalp, it is one of our most useful reu 
dies. 

Use it internally and external ly. 

PHYTOLACCA DECANDEA. 

Puke Hoot. 

Through the ganglionic system it especially af- 
fects the glandular system ; especially affecting the 
glands of the throat and mammae, the periosteal 
and fibrous tissues, muscular system, skin, and up- 
per portion of the alimentary canal (mucous mem- 
branes), kidneys, and slightly the motor nervous 
system. 

A few year- since I recommended this remedy 
to the profession, as the best known remedy for 
diphtheria, where th lo-membrane did not 

extend into the respiratory i Since then I 

have used it constantly whenever called to attend 

those eases, and I wish no remedy to give bet! 

satisfaction. I can now repeat, that it is still 
best letdown n //>> dy for diphtheria, when the air-pas- 
sages are not involved, its action on the system 
being identical with that of diphtheria. The tinc- 
ture prepared from the green root is the only prep- 
aration that should he used. 

Grand Characteristics. 

The patient is of a rheumatic diathesis, and 
is frequently afflicted with rheumatism of the 
periosteal and fibrous tissues, or is suffering 
from the bad effects of syphilis. 



PHYTOLACCA DECANDRA. 253 

Eyelids reddish-blue and swollen. 

Granular inflammation of the lids ; aggra- 
vated in the morning, more especially in the 
left eye, in rheumatic subjects. 

" Irresistible inclination to bite the teeth 
together." — Dr. Merrell. 

Roughness in the pharynx, with great dry- 
ness of the throat. 

Sensation as if there was a lump in the 
throat, that causes constant efforts to swallow. 

Congestion and inflammation of the back 
part of the mouth and fauces. 

Diphtheritic inflammation and ulceration of 
• the throat. 

Fauces, tonsils, and pharynx covered with 
dark-colored pseudo-membrane. 

Excessive fetor of the breath. 

Chronic inflammation and ulceration of the 
tonsils. 

Induration of the tonsils. 

Feeling as if a ball of red-hot iron had lodged 
in the fauces. 

Salivation, with metallic taste. 

Pain at root of tongue on swallowing. 

Great roughness and rawness of the throat. 

Easy vomiting, without much nausea. 

Vomiting of the ingesta, bile, and blood, 
with a great accumulation of flatus in the 
stomach and bowels. 

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254 ARSENICUM. 

Albuminous urine. 

Dark-red urine, leaving a deep-red stain in 
the vessel. 

Menses too often, too profuse, with increase 
of tears, saliva, bile, and urine. 

Painful menstruation in barren females. 

Mastitis, where the hardness is very appar- 
ent from the first, with much sensitiveness 
{vide Graph it is). 

Chronic rheumatism, where the periosteum 
is involved; worse in damp weather. 

Syphilitic rheumatism. 

ARSENICUM. 
At A id. 

This greatest of remedies acts upon almost every 
organ and tissue in the body, but affects m< 
especially the ganglionic nervous system. Its ac- 
tion upon the cerebrospinal Bystem is powerful, 
but not so great as it is on the ganglionic system* 
Through the ganglionic system it especially affects 
the alimentary canal,— whose organic functions 
are stricken down and destroyed from the inmost 
recesses of vitality. Its action somewhat resembles 
that which Aconite has upon the infinitesimal 
ramifications of the great sympathetic, through- 
out all the arterial capillary vessels. Arsenic af- 
fects these same capillary vessels, but more power- 
fully, and its action is more lasting. 

The mucous membrane is affected throughout 



ARSENICUM. 255 

its whole length, hut more especially the mouth, 
throat, stomach, duodenum, and rectum. 

Its action upon the intestinal tract is so similar to 
that of cholera, that in an epidemic of cholera, no 
man could tell the difference. The innumerable 
follicles of the immense intestinal tract are com- 
pletely paralyzed, and the watery elements of the 
blood exude through the relaxed tissues, in im- 
mense quantities. But, if the poison taken is large 
enough, this paralysis goes on to inflammation and 
destructive ulceration of the most malignant kind ; 
the mucous membrane becomes dry, or exudes a 
thin, ichorous discharge, with violent vomiting, 
diarrhoea, dysentery, ulceration of the stomach 
and intestines, gangrene of the anus, aphthae of the 
buccal mucous membrane, violent thirst, with low, 
prostrating fever. 

Upon the serous membranes it produces subacute 
inflammation, with speedy and copious serous ef- 
fusions, affecting most frequently the pleura, but 
not so powerfully the peritoneum and arachnoid. 

Upon the skin it has a profound action, produc- 
ing almost every form of cutaneous irritation, from 
simple erythema to malignant e^sipelas, pustular 
inflammation, and gangrene. But the most com- 
mon form is the squamous and vesicular. 

It has also a powerful action upon the kidneys, 
liver, and salivary glands. 

Through the ganglionic system it has a powerful 
haematic action. " The poison acts directly on the 
red corpuscles, diminishing their power of taking 



256 ARSENICUM. 

up the oxygen supplied to them in the lungs ; and 
the carbonaceous compounds thus anconsnmed, de- 
posit themselves in the form of fat. If this direct 
action on the corpuscles be granted, many of the 
phenomena of arsenical poisoning become expli 
ble. No wonder that the blood is black and n< in- 
coagulable, resembling that of malignant fever and 
cholera; that petechial effusions frequently occur, 
and the chronic poisoning takes the form of a | 
found cachexia." — HuGHKS. 

Its action upon the animal or cerebro-spinal 
tern is not so powerful as it is upon the organic 
system; nevertheless it has a profound influei 
upon this system, as shown by the COnVUlsioi 
paralysis, an;esth< >ia, neuralgia, melancholy, anx- 
iety, anguish, irritability, great ret 98, and 
even softening of the brain, which it occasions. 

It also has an irritant action upon the muscular 
system, heart, and lungs. 

Grand Characteristics. 

Rapid and great prostration, with sinking of 
the vital forces. 

Burning pains; the parts burn like fire. 

Pains worse during rest ; relieved by motion. 

"All the symptoms are worse at night, par- 
ticularly after midnight." — G. 

Great anguish, extreme restlessness, and 
fear of death. 

" Great thirst for cold water ; drinks very 
often, but little at a time/' — G. 



ARSENICUM. 257 

Cold perspiration, with great prostration. 

Great loss of flesh. 

"Wants to be in a warm room." — G. 

" Constantly licking the dry, cracked lips, 
with great burning heat of the whole body." 
— G. 

White, waxy, pale face, with great debility. 

Cadaverous face, nose pointed, eyes sunken. 

" Tongue dry, brown, or black." — Raue. 

u Voice hoarse." — Raue. 

Violent burning pains in the stomach. 

" Skin wrinkled, dry, cold, and blue ; or cold, 
sticky perspiration." — Raue. 
1 " Cannot lie down for fear of suffocation ; 
highest degree of dyspnoea." — G. 

" The stomach does not seem to assimilate 
cold water; it is wanted, but cannot drink it." 
— Raue. 

" Stomach disordered after eating fruit or ice- 
cream." — H. 

Nightly vomiting. 

" Violent vomiting of ingesta, serous liquids, 
with flakes, also brown and black substances, 
with violent burning pains in the stomach, and 
watery diarrhoea, accompanied with cramps 
of the abdominal muscles and extremities. " — 
Raue. 

Sensation as if a stone was in the stomach. 

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258 ARSENICUM. 

" Diarrhoea of a cadaverous smell, scenting 
the whole atmosphere of the room." — Raue. 

u Diarrhoea is renewed after eating or drink- 
ing."— G. 

" Great enervation after stool ; the anus 
burns like fire." — Hempel. 

" Varices burn like fire, particularly at 
night."— G. 

u Acrid, burning, corroding discharges, often 
extremely offensive." — G. 

Painful lienteria, 

"Leucorrlura, thick, yellow, corroding the 
parts which are touched." — G. 

Thin, corrosive leucorrlura. 

General anasarca, with white, waxy pale- 
ness of the face, and great debility. 

Feeble cachectic condition, with aphtlue. 

M Eruptions disappear suddenly, with rapid 
prostration." — G. 

" Burning, internal or external, in eruptions, 
&c, relieved by heat/' — II. 

" Sensation as if warm air was streaming up 
the spine into the head." — G. 

"Neuralgia; the pains are burning, with 
agony and great restlessness; often intermit- 
tent ; worse during rest ; relieved by exercise." 
— G. 

Chronic inflammations of serous membranes, 
with copious, serous effusions. 



SULPHATE OF SEPSIN. 259 

Phagedenic ulcerations, constantly extend- 
ing in breadth. 

Chronic, organic, valvular disease of the 
heart, with intermittent pulse, dyspnoea, ana- 
I sarca, hypertrophy, palpitation, &c; worse to- 
wards evening and at night, on going up stairs, 
i from deep inspirations, or anger. 

" Bran-like, dry, scaly eruptions, with itching 
j and burning; the latter increased by scratch- 
ing, and followed by bleeding." — H. 

" Poisoning from decayed or morbid animal 
matter, by inoculation, inhalation, or swallow- 
ing."— H. 

u Bad effects from China or Iodine.'' — Lippe. 

" Gangrene, better from heat." — Lippe. 

"Complaints caused by chewing tobacco." 
— H. 

Adapted to lymphatic nervous temperaments, 
sad and irritable; to dropsical and choleraic dis- 
eases, malarial fevers, especially if they have 
been abused by Quinine. 

SULPHATE OF SEPSIN. 

The Poison generated in Putrefaction. 

"Drs. Bergman and Schmiedeberg have com- 
municated to the Centralblatt (German), an ac- 
count of the isolation of a crystalline substance, 
which they believe is the proper poison generated 
in putrefactive fermentation. This poison, the 



260 SULPHATE OF SEPSIN. 

terror of the dissecting-room, has hitherto been 
known only by its effects. The substance which 
these chemists have succeeded in isolating, they 
call the Sulphate of Sepsin. The London Lancet 
gives the following details of its preparation. It 
is obtained by diffusion through parchment-paper, 
precipitation with corrosive sublimate, removal of 
the mercury by silver, of the silver by sulphuret- 
ted hydrogen ; evaporation and purification of the 
residue. Large, well-defined, acicular needles are 
thus obtained, which are deliquescent in the air, 
and melt and carbonize when exposed to heat 
They possess a powerfully poisonous action. A 
solution, containing scarcely more than one-hun- 
dredth of a gramme, was injected into the veins 

of two dogs. Vomiting was immediately induced, 

and after a short time diarrhoea, which in the 
course of an hour became Moody. After nine 
hours the animals were killed, and on examination 
their stomachs and large intestines were found 
ecchymosed, and the small intestines congested. 
Frogs could be killed in the same manner." I have 
copied this article entire from the Scientific Amer- 
ican, believing that it will prove a remedy equal 
to Arsenicum in usefulness, which it so closely re- 
sembles in action. Providence permitting, I for 
one, will do my duty in developing its therapeutic 
powers. From the many cases of poisoning we 
have, in the dissecting-room and elsewhere, of this 
poison, a good proving can now be collected. 



LEPTANDRIA VIRGINICA. 261 

LEPTANDRIA VIRGINICA. 

Black Boot. 

Acts through the ganglionic system, especially 
upon the liver, intestinal glandular system, and 
mucous membrane of the colon and rectum. 

G ran d Ch a racter istics, 

" Black, profuse, papescent, tar-like, very 
fetid stools, generally in the afternoon or even- 
ing/' — Hale. 

Congestion of the portal system, with con- 
stant distress in the lower part of the epigas- 
trium, and upper portion of the umbilical re- 
gion, with frequent sharp pains in the same 
region. 

Congestion of the liver, with an icterode 
condition, yellow coated tongue and brown 
urine. 

Aching pains in the liver. 

Chronic diarrhoea, with inflammation of the 
mucous membrane of the colon, and hepatic 
derangement very prominent. 

Stools, mucus, blood, and black fecal matter. 

Stools of pure mucus, with much abdominal 
pain. 

This is one of the best known remedies for 
chronic diarrhoea, especially when the stools 
are worse in the afternoon and evening. 



262 STILLINGIA SYLVATICA — ALOW 

STILLINGIA SYLVATICA. 

Queen's Root. 

Acts upon the glandular and lymphal stemJ 

lungs, and skin. 

Its characteristics are unknown, bat has been 
used very successfully in many chronic Bcrofal 
affections, in venereal and skin dis< and in 

chronic rheuinatisin. 

ALOES. 

S<> 

Acts through the ganglionic system upon the 
liver, muscular portion of the large intestines, es- 
pecially the rectum, and tin' generative <M'L r an> and 
skin. It produces great congestion of the portal 
circulation. 

( i rft n ( I ( ft a rartevistics. 

Violent tenesmus, with stools of bloody wai 
great faintness daring and after each stool. 

Sharp pains in the bowels, with large quan- 
tities of flatus with the stools. 

" Stools in consistence like jelly-cakes; 
quantity of clear jelly-like Bubstance, which 
may be green or white, adheres like congealed 
mucus." 

44 Sense of insecurity in the bowels, as if di- 
arrhoea might occur at any time." — Hughes. 

" Diarrhoea, with want of confidence in the 
sphincter ani. The rectum seems full of fluid, 



ALOES. 263 

which feels heavy, as if it would fall out." — 
H. N. M. 

" Fistula in ano ; it never has disappointed 
me." — Dr. Boyd. 

u Yellow, fecal, bloody, jelly-like mucus ; 
worse when walking or standing, after eating, 
or passing urine." — J. B. Bell, M.D. 

" Diarrhoea at 10 p.m. and 10 a.m." — H. N. M. 

" Diarrhoea, pain, soreness and burning in 
the rectum; stools copious and watery, with 
much flatus ; great exhaustion and faintness 
after stool, at 2 or 3 a.m. ; every morning is 
driven out of bed for stool." 

Hemorrhoidal congestions; the hemorrhoids 
bleed often and profusely. 

Dysentery, with prolonged and severe tenes- 
mus ; the rectum is much affected ; much pain 
and faintness during stool. 

" A peculiar, heavy, dull, pressing pain in 
the forehead, of no great severity, but which 
indisposes to or even incapacitates for all exer- 
tion, especially for intellectual labor." — Dr. P. 
P. Wells. 

Dull heavy headache, with dull pains in the 
liver. 

" Falling out of the hair in adults." — Teste. 

Eberle says, "Experience has shown that 
this drug is among the most efficient agents 
for exciting the uterine vessels, and directing 



264 ARGENTUM. 

the afflux of blood to them, and deserves to be 
accounted the best remedy we p<> against 

those protracted, exhausting, and obstin, 
hemorrhages from the uterus, which occur in 
females of nervous, relaxed, and phlegmatic 
habits, about the critical period of life." 

ARGENTUM. 
SUtk r. 

Acts especially on the cerebro-spinal system, the 
hones, articulations, cartilages of the ears, Eusta- 
chian tube, tympanum, cartilages of the nose, false 
ribs, tarsal cartilages, muscles, tendons, ligaments, 
particularly those in the neighborhood of joints, 
heart, testicles, salivary glands, and >kin. 

Grand Characteristics* 

"Time seems to pass very slowly, every- 
thing done seems done BO slowly. She has, for 
instance, been flowing for an hour, and to her 
it seems hours; we work rapidly for her safety, 
and she thinks we are so very slow." — G. 

" Moral and nervous disturbances come on 
in quite regular paroxysms every night, in the 
morning, or at noon, more particularly after 
dinner." 

" Dizzy, and much confusion in the head." 
— G. 

Headache not severe, but dull and constant. 



ARGENTUM. 265 

" The spasms are violent, and are preceded 
by a sensation of expansion of the whole body, 
especially of the face and head." — G. 

" The stomach seems as if it would burst 
with wind, accompanied with great desire to 
belch, which is accomplished with difficulty, 
when the air rushes out with great violence." 
— G. 

" Diarrhoea of green fetid mucus, passing off 
with much flatulence." — G. 

" After taking any fluid, it appears as though 
it were running straight through the intestinal 
canal without stopping." — G. 

" Dysenteric stools, consisting of masses of 
epithelial substance, connected bymuco-lymph, 
and colored red or green, shreddy, frequently 
passed with severe bearing down in the hyp- 
ogastrium. On rising, sense of weight in the 
back. Advanced stages of dysentery, with 
suspected ulceration of the bowels." — J. C. M. 

" Sandy stools."— G. 

Sugar in urine. 

Ragged ulcers on the prepuce. 

" The urethra feels swollen inside." — G. 

Genital organs shrivelled; sexual desire gone. 

" Uterine hemorrhage, with much trouble in 
the head, greatly aggravated by motion." — G. 

11 Bleeding ulcers of the womb." — G. 

" She has a presentiment of the approaching 

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266 SPONGIA. 

spasm; she is in constant motion from the 
time she comes out of one spasm till sh< 
into another." — G. 

Great debility, particularly in the lower ex- 
tremities, with much chilliness. 

" Paraplegia from debilitating causes.'' — 
Rale. 

Pain in the joints, aggravated by motion. 

Dry cough only in the daytime. 

Ophthalmia neonatorum, specific. 

SPONGIA. 

Spongia Marx 

Ads especially through the ganglionic Byfl 
on the larynx and trachea, thyroid gland, ovai 
and testicles. 

Grand CharacteriotUp* 

"Cough dry and sibilant, sounding like a saw 
driven through a pine board, each cough cor- 
responding to a thrust of the saw." — G. 

"Chronic hoarseness and cough ; the VO 
frequently giving out when talking or sing- 
ing."— G. 

Great dryness of the larynx, with hoai 
hollow, wheezing cough. — G. 

" Menses too early and too profuse, preceded 
by colic, soreness in the sacrum, and craving 
in the stomach." — G. 



BARYTA CARBONICA. 267 

Violent drawing in the upper and lower ex- 
tremities during the menses. — G. 

%i Smooth swelling and induration of the tes- 
ticles." — Hempel. 

" Awakes often in a fright, and feels as if 
she was suffocating." 

" Is inconsolable, and wishes to die at once." 

" Keeps the head high up in bed." 

" Every day several attacks of heat, with 
anxiousness, pain in the region of the heart, 
and weeping." 

" Thinking of it renews the one-sided heat 
of face." 

Goitre in persons who live in villages. 

BARYTA CARBONICA. 

Carbonate of Baryta. 

Acts upon the cerebrospinal system, but especi- 
ally through the ganglia on the glandular system, 
more especially the glands of the throat, and the 
sexual organs. 

Grand Characteristics, 

Especially suited to dwarfish women, with 
scanty menstruation, and troublesome weight 
about the pubes in any position. — G. 

To scrofulous children, that do not grow. — G. 

Submaxillary and parotid glands are swollen 
and tender. 



268 CROTON TIGLIUM. 

Chronic induration of tonsils. — F. 

Tonsils enlarged, and suppurate often. 

" It is our best remedy in tonsillitis to pre- 
vent suppuration." — Hughes. 

" The throat looks pale, is sore, with putrid 
breath." 

Impotence. 

Especially adapted to diseases of old men. 

"When convalescing from pneumonia, sen- 
sation as if the lungs were full of smoke; she 
smells pine smoke/' 

CROTON TIGLIUM. 

Or&Um OH 

Acts on the cerebrospinal and ganglionic nerv- 
ous Byetemfl ; from the ganglionic irritation a tran- 
sudation of the watery part of the blood is thrown 
out into the intestinal canal, causing eopious wa- 
tery stools in less than an hour, from one or two 
drops placed on the tongue. Also acts upon the 
lymphatic system and skin. 

Qrand Characteristics. 

" Neuralgic pains, from pupil of left eye to 
the back part of the head." — G. 

Watery stools, that escape suddenly from the 
bowels, with great prostration. 

" Colic and diarrhoea immediately after nurs- 
ing."_G. 



AURUM. 269 

" Diarrhoea, worse after drinking." — G. 

" Pain extends from the nipple through to 
•the shoulder-blade: every time the child draws 
at the breast the suffering is excruciating." — G. 

Most intense itching and burning of the 
skin. No drug causes such intolerable itching 
and violent burning of the skin as Croton tig- 
lium. 

Vesicles on the skin, which are red, and 
tburn like fire. 

Urticaria of the skin of the abdomen. 

Intense redness of the skin, with a yellow, 
plastic exudation; burns like fire. 

Bad effects from suppression of the charac- 
teristic eruption. 

AURUM. 

* Gold. 

Acts upon the brain and osseous system ; especi- 
ally the nasal and palatine bones. Also affects the 
glandular system and periosteum. 

The grand key-notes for Aurum, are : 

Great melancholy. 

The mind constantly tends towards self- 
destruction. — G. 

No medicine produces such great loathing 
of life. 

Sensation of internal weakness. 

Otorrhoea ; the bones come from the ears. 

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270 AURUM. 

Ozaena, with fetid discharge from the no 

Swelling of the skull-bones. 

Caries of the nasal, palatine, mastoid, and 
ossicular bones. — Raue. 

Falling out of the hair. 

Nightly bone-pains. 

Swelling of the periosteum of the forearms 
and shin-bones. 

Exostosis, especially of the skull and shin- 
bones. 

Craves nothing but sour thin 

Nightly diarrhoea 

Induration of the Oi uteri. 
"Great nervous weakness* with utter de- 
spair." — Raue. 
"Feeling as though the heart ceased beating 

for a while, and then at onee a hard thump is 
felt/ 1 

The scrofulous element may be often extin- 
guished by gold. 

Especially adapted to svphilitico-mercurial 
affections. In these affections the Muriate of 
Gold will he most useful. 

" Caries of bones, paining worse at night. M 
— Lippe. 

" Hysterical spasms, with alternate laugh- 
ing and crying." — Lippe. 



IPECACUANHA. 271 



GROUP VI. 



Ipecacuanha, 
Antimonium crud., 
Lobelia inflata, 



Euphorbia, 

Bismuth, 

Robenia. 



This group constitutes our emetic remedies. 
•All affect prominently the pneumogastric nerve in 
its various ramifications. Xausea and vomiting is 
the great characteristic pathogenetic symptom of 
this group. Tartar emetic, and Veratrum viride, 
might be classed with this group, but their more 
appropriate place is in the Aconite, or inflammatory 
group. 

IPECACUANHA. 

Cephaelis Ipecacuanha. 

This remedy acts especially as an irritant to the 
peripheral extremities of the pneumogastric nerve, 
producing spasmodic asthma in the respiratory or- 
gans, and in the stomach violent nausea and vom- 
iting. Its action upon the respiratory organs and 
stomach seems to be about half neurotic and half 
phlogistic in character. In the diseases to which 
it is homoeopathic, there is both the spasmodic and 
the inflammatory element. 

Upon the mucous membranes, it excites an in- 
creased secretion of mucus. 

Upon the skin, it acts as a diaphoretic. 



272 IPECACUANHA. 

Grand Characteristics. 

Violent and continual nausea, with vomit- 
ing of large quantities of tenacious, ^\ 1 1 i * 
glairy mucus. 

Constant and continual nausea. 

" Stooping causes him to vomit." — H. 

"Nausea, with distension of the abdomen 
and dryness in the throat; after vomiting, in- 
clination to sleep." — II. 

"Vomiting, thirst, sweat, and bad breath." 
—II. 

Nausea and vomiting of blood. 

Feeling of qualmishness, emptiness, and flab* 
biness about the stomach, with profuse flow of 
watery saliva. 

Flat taste, with white, thickly-coated ton. 

"Stools as if fermented, as green as gn 

with nausea and OOlic." — II. 

Green, watery, or fermented stools; worse 

in the evening, with nausea. 

Stools of blood and mucus, with continual 
nausea. 

Diseases from eating unripe, sour fruit. 

"Continual discharge of bright-red blood 
from the womb." — G. 

"During hemorrhages from the womb, they 
commence breathing heavily." — II. 

11 Much distress about the navel, but it runs 
off to the uterus, the seat of the disease/ 5 — G. 



IPECACUANHA. 273 

The chest seems full of phlegm, but does not 
yield to coughing. 

" Phlegm rattling on chest ; sometimes vom- 
ited up by young children." — H. 

Incessant and most violent cough with every 
breath, in delicate children, with great pale- 
ness of the face. 

" Headache, as if the brain was bruised 
through all the bones of the head, and down 
into the root of the tongue." — H. 

" Loses breath with the cough ; turns pale 
in the face, and stiffens." — H. 

" Suffocation threatens from constriction in 
the throat and chest; worse from the least 
motion." — H. 

Ipecac is frequently indicated in u the sneez- 
ing of hay-fever, the violent expulsive cough 
of pertussis, the spasmodic forms of croup, and 
cases of half bronchitis and half asthma." — 
Hughes. 

" Backache, short chill, long fever; mostly 
heat, with thirst, headache, nausea, cough, and 
sweat, last." — H. 

Intermittents, where the gastric symptoms 
predominate. 

u With every movement, a cutting pain al- 
most constantly running from left to right." 
— G. 

" One hand cold, the other hot." — H. 



274 ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM. 

Adapted to gastric and lung disease- 
Especially suited to the incessant, dry cough, 
which sometimes attacks children of delicate 
constitution, suffering with measles. — F. 

ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM. 

Antimony. 

Especially affects the mucous membranes, skin, 
and pneumogastric nerve. Its action upon the 
mucous membranes hardly ever goes on to inflam- 
mation, but the mucous membrai >me loaded 
with mucus, producing slow digestion, fermenta- 
tion, &c. 

Gran d Characteristic* 

Thick, milky-white coating on the tongue. 

"The mucous membranes are loaded with 
mucus, with slow digestion, fermentation of 
food, with nausea and vomiting." — HuOfiSS. 

" Sore, cracked, and crusty nostrils, and cor- 
ners of the mouth." — H. 

" Decayed teeth ache worse at night; can- 
not bear to be touched by the tongue." — II. 

"Stomach out of order; belching, with the 
taste of food, nausea, and hard stool." — II. 

'"Stools often liquid, containing portions of 
solid matter." — H. 

"Sensation as if a copious stool was going 
to take place, when only flatus comes forth ; 
finally a hard stool is voided." — G. 



LOBELIA INFLATA. 275 

Diarrhoea at night, with great thirst for cold 
water. 

" Tenderness over the ovarian region, with 
nausea, vomiting, and white tongue. " — H. 

" Distinct pressure in the womb, as if some- 
thing would come out, with hemorrhage." — G. 

" Sentimental mood in the moonlight ; par- 
ticularly ecstatic love." — H. 

" The greatest sadness and woful mood, with 
intermittent fever." — H. 

" Child cannot bear to be touched or looked 
fit,"— H. 

" Crushed finger-nails grow in splits, and 
like warts, and with horny spots." — H. 

" Corns or callosities in the soles of the feet." 
— H. 

" Complaints after bathing, particularly in 
sold water."— H. 

" Cannot bear to be looked at." — Bell. 

" In aged people, malformations of the skin, 
3orns, horny excrescences, fistulous ulcers, 
? ungus articularis, obesity, excessive hemor- 
rhages, and dropsical effusions." — Lippe. 



LOBELIA INFLATA. 

Indian Tobacco. 



Its main sphere of action is especially upon 
the pneumogastric nerves. " About opposite the 
pharynx, as the starting-point, it passes in both 



276 LOBELIA INFLATA. 

directions, involving the phrenic, solar, and cardiac 
plexuses, and finally the cerebrospinal system." — 
Hale. 

Nerves of Sensation. — Lohelia first affects the 
nerves of sensation. "The pneumogastric bei 
made up of both sensory and motor filaments, tin- 
impression passes down the extremities of that 
nerve, and the brain sends a motor current to eject 
the drug. While this is being done, the sensation 
has gone on to the great sympathetic, and finally 
it is felt at the finger-ends and tors. The sen 
tion is felt most severely in the solar plexus; the 
depression upon this and the other plexuses of the 

sympathetic system is Bach, that the patient im- 
agines that death is about to eii.Mie." — IIai. 

c * Nerves qf Motion* — This system is brought most 
powerfully under the action of this drug. The in- 
ferior laryngeal seem> to be the first one called 

into action, which causes a constricted feeling 

the larynx; passing on the oesophagus, contra* 
its whole length; then the stomach contracts fr 
below upwards, and emesis follows. In the mean- 
time the bronchi and chest contract, and the par 
tient feels as if suffocation was impending. V 
the voluntary muscles are called into action, and 
if the drug is carried far enough, convulsions and 
death ensue. 

" Muscular System. — This system suffi "rely, 

the whole nervous energies being brought so com- 
pletely under the control of this drug. The invol- 
untary muscular fibres are the ones first involved, 
as we observe by the vermicular motion of the 






. LOBELIA INFLATA. 277 

muscular fibres of the oesophagus, the contractions 
of the stomach and bronchi, and the lateral action 
of the heart. The voluntary muscles do not seem 
to be affected until the involuntary are completely 
under its influence. 

u In the reductions of luxations, the Eclectics use 
it much as we do Chloroform, to relax the muscu- 
lar fibres, until the patient is as 'limber as a rag.' 
This is why it is of service in rigidity of the os 
uteri, perineum, intussusceptions, and herniae." — 
Hale. 

Grand Characteristics. 

Spasmodic asthma; worse from exertion; 
disordered stomach, and especially a feeling 
of weakness in the pit of the stomach. 

Hawking up copious quantities of mucus. 

Burning pricking in the air-passages. 

Dyspnoea, with a sense of a lump in the pit 
of the stomach rising into the mouth. 

" Increased flow of saliva with most ail- 
ments." — Lippe. 

Dyspnoea in emphysema. 

Violent nausea and vomiting, with great loss 
of strength. 

Chronic vomiting, in paroxysms, with nau- 
sea, profuse perspiration, prostration of strength, 
with good appetite; lateritious urine. — Dr. 
Jeanes. 

Sick headache, with vertigo; dull headache, 

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278 EUPHORBIA COROLLATA — BISMUTHUM. 

violent nausea, vomiting, and great prostra- 
tion, 

" Eruption between the fingers, on the d< 
of the hands, and on the forearm, consisting of 
small vesicles, accompanied by tingling and 
itching, resembling itch-pustules exactly." 

EUPHORBIA COROLLATA. 

"Large Flotr, ring Spt 

Acts especially upon the pnemogastric nerve, 
alimentary canal, and skin. 

Its characteristics are unknown, but it is 
adapted to du ofthe digestii ins, re- 

sembling those of Ipecac. 

BISMUTHUM. 
Svimitraii of Bismuth, 
Acts upon the cerebrospinal axis, the pneumo- 

gastric nerve, and digestive apparatus; especially 
affecting the stomach. 

Grand Characteristics* 

" Solitude is unbearable." — Lippe, 
Dull, heavy headache. 
Craves cold drinks in the evening. 
Nausea after every meal. 
Feeling of pressure in the stomach after 
every meal. 



ROBIXIA PSEUDO-ACACIA. 279 

Burning in the stomach, with vomiting. 

" Desire for stool in the evening, but cannot 
evacuate anything." — G. 

u Flashes of heat, especially upon the head 
and chest." — Lippe. 

Adapted to dyspepsia, and diseases of the 
stomach. 

ROBINIA PSEUDO-ACACIA. 

Black Locust. 

Affects especially the pneumogastric nerve, in- 
testinal canal, glandular system, and also acts upon 
the cerebro-spinal system. 

Through its action upon the pneumogastrics 
and medulla oblongata, it produces the most acid 
state of the stomach of any remedy in the materia 
medica. This was noted when I first introduced 
the remedy to the profession, and all who have 
used it testify to this fact. 

Grand Characteristics. 

Excessive acidity of the stomach. 

Vomiting of intensely sour fluid, setting the 
teeth on edge. 

Frequent eructations of sour fluid. 

Great distension of the stomach and bowels, 
with flatulency; the intestines distended almost 
to the point of rupturing, with severe colic. 

Dull, heavy, squeezing pains in the stomach, 
especially after every meal. 



280 ROBINIA PSEUDO-ACACIA. 

" Water taken before eating at night, re- 
turned in the morning, green and sour." 

Sour regurgitations of infants. 

Sour stools of infants ; the whole child smells 
sour. 

Desire for stool, but only flatulence pa- 
off; finally, constipated stools. 

Dull, frontal headache, much aggravated by 
motion, with neuralgic pains in the temples. 

Low-spirited, with great irritability. 

Especially adapted to gastric diseases, and 
sick headache. 



GROUP SEVENTH. 281 



GROUP VII. 



Ferrum met. , 

Manganese, 

Zinc, 



Helonias dioica, 
Hypophosphites, 
Calcarea. 



This group constitutes our anaemic remedies, all 
of them acting through that part of the vegetative 
ganglionic system that presides over the blood, pro- 
duce a decrease of the albumen, and an increase of 
water in the serum sanguinis, and at the same time, 
diminish the red blood-corpuscles. In health, each 
blood-corpuscle lives a certain period of time, and 
after that it dissolves and disappears, and a new one 
forms in its place. Thus a constant rotation be- 
tween life and death goes on in these minute bodies, 
in order to sustain the life of the whole body. 
Xow this group of remedies, especially Iron and 
Manganese, destroy this equilibrium through the 
ganglionic nervous system, and more red corpus- 
cles die than are newly generated ; causing great 
weakness of the muscular system, nervousness, 
palpitation, and a bellows-sound of the heart and 
large arteries, murmur in the jugular veins, hy- 
dremia, chlorosis, anaemia, and oligocythemia, 
with their long train of symptoms. Other reme- 
j dies affect the plasma of the blood in a similar man- 
ner, but none so profoundly as the above group, 
area will be found in the Sulphur group, 

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282 FERRUM. 

FERRUM. 

Iron. 

Acts upon the spleen, producing atrophy, ren- 
dering it unable to perform its functional support 
of the process of sanguification, causing anaemia, 
or hydremia; especially affects the blood-plasma! 
decreasing the albumen and red-cor] in- 

creasing the water in the Berum sanguinis, pro- 
ducing chlorosis and oligocythemia. Also affi 
the digestive and urinary organs, and lastly, the 
sexual organs. 

( i ra )i fl ( h a r act eristic*. 

" Weakly persons, with fiery-red face" — G. 
"Least emotion or exertion produces a red, 

flushed face."— G. 

"Ashy pale or greenish face; With pains or 
other symptoms, the face becomes bright red." 
— Raue. 

Anaunia, with pal( k face and lips, with great 
debility. 

"Cannot keep the head quiet; at intervals 
the face looks earthy and pale." — G. 

"Great paleness of the mucous membranes, 
especially that of the cavity of the mouth. 91 — 
Raue. 

"Face becomes suddenly fiery-red, with ver- 
tigo; ringing in the ears; great palpitation of 
the heart and dyspnoea." — G. 



FERRUM. 283 

Bellows-sound of the heart, and anaemic mur- 
mur of the arteries and veins. 

Muscles are feeble, and easily exhausted 
from slight exertion. 

u The bowels feel sore on touching them, as 
if they had been bruised, or weakened by ca- 
thartics." — Raue. 

" Vomiting at midnight." — G. 

"Everything vomited tastes sour and acrid; 
vomiting of food, with fiery-red face; renewed 
vomiting after eating." — G. 

" Vomiting of the ingesta after every cough." 
— G. 

Lienteria, with stools of undigested food 
without pain. 

"Frequent diarrhoeic stools, corroding the 
anus ; the face being fiery -red." — G. 

" Obstinate diarrhoea, composed of slime and 
undigested food ; the stools are painless, exco- 
riating, and exhausting." 

"Diarrhoea worse mornings; bad sleep before 
| midnight."— J. C. M. 

" Leucorrhoea like watery milk, smarting 
and corroding the parts when first appearing." 
— G. 

" Previous to the menses, she has stinging 
headache, ringing in the ears, and discharges 
of long pieces of mucus from the uterus." — G. 

" Menorrhagia in weakly persons, with fiery- 



284 MANGANUM. 

red face. It occurs too frequent, is too profuse, 
and lasts too long." — G. 

u The menses intermit two or three di 
and then return, the blood being very pale." 
— G. 

" Much itching of the vulva, in delicate, 
weakly females, with fiery-red face/' — G. 

" Spitting blood, with flying pains in the 
chest."— G. 

" Haemoptysis; better when walking slowly .1 

"Rheumatism of the deltoid muscle, of a 
tearing, laming nature; worse in bed/ 1 

"Remitting pains; worse at night, driving 
him out of bed; motion diminishes the paii 

"(Edematous swelling of the body; cool 
skin ; constant chilliness, and evening fc\ 
simulating hectic fever." — BbMPEL, 

"Always better from walking slowly about, 
notwithstanding weakness obliges the patient 
to lie down." — (i. 

" General hemorrhagic tendency." — LlPFE. 

Especially adapted to cachectic and leUGO- 
phlegmatic individuals, and to di where 

the vegetative system is involved. 

MANGANUM. 
Mangai 

Acts especially upon the plasma of the blood, 

destroying its vitality: on the boi illy 



zincum. 285 

the periosteum; skin, alimentary canal, respira- 
tory organs, and the motor nervous system. 

Gran d Characteristics. 

Bones very sensitive to the touch, with in- 
tolerable digging pains at night. 

Chronic suppurations of the skin, especially 
about the joints. 

" Rheumatic affections of joints, with red, 
shiny swellings." — Lippe. 

" Ehagades in bends of joints." — Lippe. 

" Skin does not heal readily." — Lippe. 

" Pain, after eating food, in weakly females." 

Paralysis of the nerves of motion. 
Symptoms are worse at night. 
This is a close analogue of Iron, and will 
be found adapted to similar diseases. 

ZINCUM? 

Zinc. 

Affects the cerebro-spinal system, especially irri- 
tating the peripheral sentient nerves and nerves of 
motion. It also has a powerful influence over the 
ganglionic nervous system, as shown by the great 
depression of nutrition. Its action upon the blood 

-light compared to that of Iron. Zinc corre- 
sponds to diseases of the nervous system, the same 
as Iron does to diseases of the blood. It is, in fact, 
the greatest tonic to the nervous system we have. 



286 zincum. 

Grand Characteristics. 

"Incessant and powerful fidgety feeling in 
the feet or lower extremities; must move them 
constantly." — G. 

" The flow of the menses always relieves all 
her sufferings, but they return again soon after 
the cessation of the menses." — G. 

"During the menses, heaviness of the limbs. 
with violent drawing around the knees, as if 
they would be twisted off." — G. 

"A constant, distressing boring pain in the 
left ovarian region, only partially relieved by 
pressure or during menstruation, but returns 
again soon after the flow." — G. 

u Menses too early, too profuse; lumps of 

coagulated blood pass away, mostly when 

walking." — G. 

u Sexual desire several limes through the 
night; irresistible desire for onanism." — G. 

"Uterine ulcers, have a bloody acrid dis- 
charge, but is of itself rather destitute of feel- 
ing; an excessively violent and obstinate pain 
in the brain sometimes accompanies this ulcer. 
This pain may even assume the form of an in- 
termittent." — G. 

" Sudden oppression of the stomach; she has 
to loosen her dress." — G. 

" Great greediness when eating; cannot eat 
fast enough from canine hunger." — G. 



zincum. 287 

"Terrible heartburn after taking sweet 
things; much nausea, vomiting, and fidgety 
feet.''— G. 

Taste of blood in the mouth, and sweetish 
risings from the stomach. 

j "Distended abdomen, with dry, hard, insuf- 
ficient stools." — G. 

"Great difficulty in expelling the stools, 
which are insufficient." — G. 

"Flatulent colic; worse towards evening, 
oind from wine." — G. 

"Constant trembling of the hands, with 
old extremities." — Raue. 

"Impending paralysis of the brain." — 
Hughes. (Hydrocephaloid. — F.) 
I Chronic sick headache; great weakness of 
sight ; sticking in the right eye. 
i " Alternate redness and paleness of the face." 

Somnambulism. 

"Child cries out during sleep; when awak- 
ened expresses fear, and rolls its head from 
side to side." 

Spasms, where old ulcers have disappeared. 
j " Frequent jerking of the whole body during 
deep." 

Infantile convulsions. 

Articular rheumatism, with tearing pains 
and trembling. 



288 HELONIAS DIOICA — HYPOPHOSPHITES. 

HELONIAS DIOICA. 

False Unicorn. 

Acts especially on the generative organs of 
women, and kidneys ; also, "enriches the blood 
through its influence upon the nutritive processes ;" 
and, lastly, it acts upon the glandular system of 
the digestive organs. Its characteristics are un- 
known. 

HYPOPHOSPHITES. 

These valuable remedies deserve a careful iii 
tigation by the profession. Their characterise 

are unkown. 



LACHESIS. 289 



GROUP VIII. 



Lachesis, 
Crotalus, 
Hydrophobinum, 



Naja tripujians, 
Theridion curass. 
Tarantula. 



This group represents our most powerful hae- 
matic and neurotic remedies ; the influence exerted 
upon the blood and nervous centres is of a most 
malignant nature. Their action is similar to the 
most malignant fevers, gangrene, malignant pus- 
tule, pyaemia, phlebitis, putrid sore throat, &c. 

LACHESIS. 

Trigonocephalus Lachesis. 

Acts especially upon the blood, cerebrospinal 
and ganglionic nervous systems ; has a great influ- 
ence over the pneumogastric nerve ; also especially 
affects the outlets of the body, throat, and rectum ; 
generative organs of woman, especially the left 
ovary ; urinary organs, and intestinal canal. 

Grand Characteristics. 

Very unhappy and distressed after sleeping. 

" She cannot bear any pressure, not even th v e 
clothes, upon the uterine region. She wishes 
frequently to lift them, not that the abdomen 

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290 LACHESIS. 

is so very tender, but that the clothes cause 
an uneasiness." — G. 

" Very distressing aggravation after sleep- 
ing, as if the child was dying/ 1 — F. 

" Throat greatly swollen internally and ex- 
ternally; discharge from the nose and mouth 
of an intensely fetid and excoriating fluid; 
fauces covered with diphtheritic membran 
pulse quick and small; extremities mottled and 
livid; swallowing almost impossible. " — E. M, 
Hale. 

"Sensation in the anus and rectum as if 
several little hammers were beating there/ 1 — 
Dr. Eggekt. 

"Especially suited to women at the climac- 
teric period, with frequent uterine hemorrhages 
and hot flushes, accompanied with burning 
vertex headaches, and pains in the hack.'' — 
Hughes. 

"Chills at night and Bushes of heat by day." 
— G. 

" Left ovary swollen, with tensive, pressing, 
stitching pains; inability to lie on the right 
side, on account of a sensation as if something 
were rolling over to that side.'' — G. 

"Pain in the left ovarian region, increasing 
more and more until relieved by a discharge 
of blood.'— G. 



LACHESIS. 291 

" Larynx and throat painful, when touched, 
and on bending the head backwards." — G. 

" When anything touches the larynx, the 
latter is not only very sensitive, but it is as 
though it would suffocate him; it also increased 
the throatache behind." — S. 

" During the heat, as if from ebullition of 
the blood, he is compelled to loosen his neck- 
covering; it seems to impede the circulation 
of the blood, with a feeling of suffocation." 
— Smith. 

" Pressure upon the larynx causes cough." 

" On touching the throat, there comes a dry, 
hacking cough, also in the morning, after sleep, 
* at night, and from tobacco-smoke." — Smith. 

Spasmodic cough, worse in the evening and 
at night, with tickling in the throat. 

" The slightest pressure produces violent 
and long-continued cough." — Smith. 

Inflammation and ulceration of the left ton- 
sil. 

"A tormenting, constant urging in the rec- 
tum, without a stool ; wanting to pass a stool, 
but the constant pain is increased by urging, 
and the patient is obliged to desist." — Dr. 
Boyce. 

Traumatic gangrene; parts deep purple color. 

" Jealous, proud, suspicious." — G. 

Spasms come on during sleep. 



292 LACHESIS. 

"Thinks she is dead (in typhoid), and that 
preparations are made for the funeral, or tl 
she is nearly dead, and wishes some one would 
help her off."— J. B. Bell. 

" Want of ear-wax in the ears." — Taiik. 

" Pain on swallowing going up into the ear; 
the course of the pain ifl along the parotid gland 
externally." — G. 

''Earthy yellowness of the l\\nr^ — RAUE. 

" Deglutition painful, with regurgitation 
through the nose/ 1 — ( i. 

" Nose hleeds n few drops before the men& 

"Diseases of the throat that eoinnienee on 
the left Bide."— G. 

" Cannot put out the tongue but with diffi- 
culty; trying it. the tongue trembles." — II. 
** Inahility to hear anything tight about the 

waist." 

The throat is so sensitive she cannot bear 
the least touch of the finger. 
"Diarrhoea in warm weather, aggravated by 

aeid fruits; worse at night and after sleep." 
"Dark, almost black urine." — I!aik. 
Frothy urine. 
u Feeling of a ball rolling in the bladder, or 

abdomen, or in both/' — Rai i:. 

Organic lesions of the stomach or how 
with vomiting of bilious matter. 



LACHESIS. 293 

" Excessively offensive stools ; the child al- 
ways awakens in distress/' — G. 

" Tickling and jerking, extending from the 
thighs to the genital organs, with sexual ex- 
citement. " — H. 

u Pains in the uterine region, increase at 
times more and more, till relieved by a flow of 
blood from the vagina ; after a few hours or 
days, the same again, and so on." — H. 

"Catamenia at the regular time, but too 
short and feeble." — H. 

Cough worse after sleep. 

" Expectoration difficult; has to hawk, hem, 
cough and spit a good while before he succeeds 
in getting a little tough phlegm away." — H. 

Fever worse afternoons. 

" With every single cough, a stitch in the 
hemorrhoidal tumor." — H. 

" Cannot lie ; must sit up bent forwards." 

" Suddenly something runs from the neck 
to the larynx, and interrupts breathing com- 
pletely; it wakens at night; spasm of the glot- 
tis."— S. 

" It has a remarkable power of allaying 
the sympathetic cough of cardiac disease." — 
Hughes. 

u Much pain of an aching kind in the shin- 
bones only." — H. 

" Severe spasms of the legs." 

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294 CROTALUS HORRIDUS. 

Nightly pains in the limbs. 

Spasms, with strange actions, such as " crawl- 
ing upon the floor, spits often, trying to hide, 
laughing, or very angry." — Raue. 

Fright from seeing snakes. 

Typhoid fever, with stupor, muttering, sunk- 
en countenance, dropping of the lower jaw, dry, 
red or black tongue, cracked on the tip and 
bleeding, trembles while protruding, dry li| 

" Is of great service in the tainting tendency 
of nervous women. In vesicular rashes, in pem- 
phigus and eczema of the hands; but most of 
all in the flushes that occur at the critical age, 
with head symptoms of insomnia. " — BaI 

Bluish, livid ulcers, worse in the evening; 

the ulcer is surrounded lev smaller ulcers, and 

burn where touched. 

Traumatic gangrene, of an ash-gray color, 
emitting an exceedingly offensive odor. 

This is one of our best remedies in all acute 
cases of gangrene. 

" It is no less important in the worst inflam- 
mation of the lances, malignant diphtheria, or 
gangrenous, especially of the left side." — F. 

CROTALUS HORRIDUS. 
Rattlesnake Poison. 

Acts especially on the blood, solar plexus, and 
pneumogastric nerves ; also affects the cerebro- 



CROTALUS HORRIDUS. 295 

spinal system. This powerful remedy has not been 
used as much as it should be. 



Grand Characteristics. 

" Hemorrhages from every orifice of the 
body, even from the pores of the skin." — Raue. 

" Sore pain from pit of the stomach to re- 
gion of liver, with qualmishness, nausea, and 
vomiting of green bilious matter." — Neidhard. 

"Mouldy smell from the mouth.' 5 — Neid- 
hard. 

" Tongue scarlet-red, or brown and swol- 
len."— N. 

Yellow, sallow face. 

Vertigo and trembling of the whole body. 

Violent frontal headache, with difficult deg- 
lutition, nausea, and bilious vomiting. 

Very severe frontal headache, with coma 
and delirium. 

Very foul breath. 

" Hemorrhage from the gums, nose, stomach, 
lungs, urethra, womb, and bowels." — Neidhard. 

Fetid diarrhoea. 

Great prostration of the vital forces. 

Most of the symptoms appear on the right 
side. 

Fever of a low typhoid form. 

Especially adapted to bilious remittent fe- 
vers, yellow fever, typhus and typhoid fevers, 



296 HYDROPHOBINUM. 

in their worst form; glanders, scurvy, gan- 
grene, and all malignant blood diseases. 

Prophylactic in yellow fever. The patient 
should be inoculated with the virus. — See C. 
Neidhard, M.D., on Crotalus. 

HYDROPHOBINUM. 
Saliva of Rabies ( 

Acts especially on the cerebrospinal system, af- 
fecting most powerfully the nerves of sensation 
and motion. The sentient nerves of the mouth 

and pharynx are especially and peculiarly affebted, 
also the salivary glands. There Ls great cong 
tioii and inflammation of the brain, medulla ob- 
longata, spinal cord, tongue, throat, fauces, glol I 
larynx, oesophagus, and Btomach. 

Grand Characteristic** 

" The desire for stool was immediately caused 

when lie heard or saw the running of water.* 
— Lute. 

Spasms are excited at every attempt to 
drink water, or at the sound of water. 

Wants water, but cannot drink it. 

" Periodical spasms of the oesophagus, with 
constant painful urging to swallow, but im- 
possibility of doing it." — II. 

" Difficult and incorrect speech/' — H. 

" Profuse, watery stools, from six to twenty 



NAJA TRIPUJIANS. 297 

a day, with pain in the lower part of the bow- 
els ; worse in the morning." — Hale. 

" Frequent spitting." — H. 

" Prophylactic in hydrophobia.'* — H. 

" Dr. Hale, and others, have reported cures 
with hydrophobia, cases in which the stools 
were induced by sight or sound of running 
water."— F. 

NAJA TRIPUJIANS. 
Cobra de Capello Vines. 

The action of this serpent-virus is very similar 
to that of the Lachesis, excepting that u the neu- 
rotic symptoms predominate over the haematic." 
The pneumogastric nerve is so powerfully affected 
that respiration, in some cases, is completely sus- 
pended, causing death. The next organ which 
suffers the most (excepting the parts supplied by 
the pneumogastric nerve), is the head. It has a 
special influence over the heart and spinal cord. 

Prominent characteristics are : 

" Temporo-frontal headache, accompanied 
with great depression of spirits, and associated 
with spinal pain and palpitation of the heart." 
— Dr. Russell. 

Pharyngo-laryngeal inflammation, with dark- 
red color of the fauces, and spasmodic irritable 
cough. 

" To quiet chronic nervous palpitation, to 
aid in the restoration of a heart recently dam- 



298 TIIERIDION CURASSAVICUM. 

aged by inflammation, and to assuage the suf- 
ferings of chronic hypertrophy and valvular 
disease, it is ranked by Dr. Russell as the chief 
remedy, and I think I can confirm his esti- 
mate." — Hughes. 

THERIDION CURASSAVICUM. 

Small Orange Spider of the West Indi 

Acts on the cerebri >->]>i nal and gang] ionic nervous 
systems; especially affecting the pneumog 
nerve. 

Grand Characteristic* 

"Time seems to pass very rapidly." — Lirn:. 

"(iivat aversion to work.* — G. 

"Vertigo and nausea increased to vomiting." 

"Headache behind the e\ i 

"Every penetrating sound and reverberation 
penetrates through her whole body, particu- 
larly through the teeth, and increases the ver- 
tigo, which then causes nausea." — II. 

"Nausea and vomiting when closing the 
eyes."— H. 

" Nausea increased to vomiting during ver- 
tigo." 

"Nausea and fainting; after it, very pale, 
and sick at the stomach, as soon as she closed 
her eyes, with vanishing of her thoughts." — II. 

" Violent stitches up high in the chest, be- 
neath the left shoulder ; are perceived even in 
the throat," 



TARANTULA. 299 

" Anxiety about the heart." 
11 Great inclination to be startled." 
" Pains in all the bones, as if every part would 
fall asunder ; feels as if broken from head to 
foot." 

Most complaints are accompanied with ver- 
tigo. 

u Adapted to scrofulosis, where the best 
chosen medicines do nothing. In phthisis flor- 
ida, Theridion is indispensable, and effects an 
entire cure if given in the beginning of the 
disease. In cases of rachitis, caries, necrosis, 
I depend chiefly on Theridion, which, although 
it does not seem to affect the external scrofu- 
lous symptoms, apparently goes to the root of 
the evil, and effectually destroys the cause of 
the disease." — Dr. Baruch. 

TARANTULA. 

A Venomous Tropical Spider. 
Acts on the cerebrospinal system and pneumo- 
gastric nerve. 

Grand Characteristics. 

" Especially indicated in chorea-form affec- 
tions, where the right arm and left leg are prin- 
cipally affected." 

Neuralgia of the uterus, with many nervous 
symptoms, accompanied with sadness and de- 
spair. 



300 



CANTHARIDES. 



GROUP IX. 



Cantharides, 
Apis mel., 
Chimaphila, 
Terebinth., 
( 'opaiva, 
( iubebe, 
Hydrasl Is, 
Kali chloricum, 
Borax, 

( laonalnfl Bat., 
I i ron, 
Apocynum can.. 



Asparag 
Qrtica on 
Petroleum, 

Mitcliclla, 

Buphrafl 

Qellebon 

Sambucus, 

Uranium, 

Eupatorium purpur., 

Btlcta, 

Zingiber. 



Tin: above group of remedies all ad ially 

upon the mucous membranes, and may be called 
the mucous group. Many other remedies afl 
the mucous membranes, but none » ially as 

the above group, excepting Mercury. 



CANTHARIDES. 

Spanish J 

Acts especially on the urinary mucous mem- 
brane, inflaming the whole tract from the kidm 
to the urethra. This powerful irritation is m 
or less reflected upon the sexual organs. It also 
affects the mucous membrane of the alimentary 
canal, but not so specifically ; and lastly, the c< 



CANTHARIDES. 301 

bro-spinal system, especially affecting the cerebel- 
lum. 

Grand Cliaracteristics. 

" Constant desire to urinate ; passing but a 
few drops at a time, sometimes mixed with 
blood."— G. 

Great burning distress in the urethra, with 
constant desire to urinate. 

Great desire to urinate, with complete stran- 
gury, and tenesmus of the cervix vesicae. 

Cutting, burning pains in the urethra, with 
ineffectual efforts to urinate. 

" Stools like the scrapings of the mucous 
membrane, mixed with blood, with burning 
and scanty urine." — Hempel. 

" Tremendous burning pain through the 
whole intestinal canal ; unquenchable thirst, 
with disgust for all kinds of drinks." — Raue. 

" Vesicles and canker in the mouth." 

" Vomiting, with violent retching and severe 
colic."— G. 

" Thoughts of drinking, sound of water, or 
touching the larynx, reproduces the spasms." 
— G. 

" Excessive desire for sexual intercourse." 
— G. 

u Menses too early, and too profuse." — G, 

" Membranous dysmenorrhoea." — G. 

" Sterile females."— G. 

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302 APIS MELLIFICA. 

u In vesicular erysipelas, burns and scalds. 
causing vesication, herpes zoster, &c, use a di- 
lute tincture locally." — Franklin. 

APIS MELLIFICA. 

Poison of the Honey Bee. 

Acts especially on the mucous tissues of the 
tongue, fauces, throat, and neck of the bladd 
also slightly upon the mucous membranes of the 
eyes, kidneys, and lungs. On the serous tissn 
it produces an inflammation which disp 
dropsical effusions. It especially affects the right 
ovary and tonsils, no1 so profoundly the salivary 
glands; also the ganglionic nervous Bystem is espe- 
cially affected ; d61 bo powerfully the sentient and 
motor nerves. And lastly, it causes an affection 

of the skin, similar to urticaria. 

Grand Characteristics, 

" Stinging pains in the affected parts, similar 
to bee-stings." — G. 

" Red spots on the skin, like bee-stings, with 
stinging, burning pains/' — (i. 

"Stinging and burning pains in the face, 
throat, urethra, ovaries, piles, tumors, panari- 
tium, carbuncles, induration, scirrhus, open 
cancers." — II. 

Stinging pains in the right ovary, which is 
much swollen, and numbness of the right side. 

" Red, and highly inflamed tonsils ; dryness 



APIS MELLIFICA. 303 

of the mouth and throat, with stinging, burn- 
ing pains when swallowing." — H. 

" Sensation in the abdomen, as if something 
tight would break, if too much effort was made 
to void a constipated stool." — G. 

" Could bear nothing to touch his neck ; 
could hardly breathe from suffocation." — Dr. 
C. W. Boyce. 

" Greenish, yellowish, slimy, mucous, or yel- 
low, watery diarrhoea ; worse in the morning." 
—J. B. Bell. 

w Diarrhoea every morning ; stools greenish- 
yellow."— H. 

" Urine dark-colored and scanty." — H. 

" Great soreness when touched in pit of stom- 
ach, under the ribs, in abdomen." — H. 

u Enlargement of the right ovary, with pain 
in left pectoral region, with cough." — H. 

Amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea, and monorrha- 
gia, from acute congestion of the ovaries. 

" GEdema, or dropsy, without thirst." — H. 

" Child lies in a torpor; delirium; sudden, 
shrilling cries; squinting, grinding teeth, bor- 
ing head in pillows; one half of body twitch- 
ing, the other lame; head wet from sweating; 
urine scanty." — H. 

"Very busy; restless; changing the kind of 
work; with awkwardness; breaking things." 

u Much yawning and uneasiness." — Raue. 



304 APIS MELLIFICA. 

" (Edematous swelling of the eyelids, with 
stinging and burning pains; lids turned inside 
out, with granulations on their edges ; cornea 
much involved; foiling out of the eyelashes 
(Use a cerate made by triturating the poison- 
bags of the honey-bee : thirty bags to one hun- 
dred grains of lard. This is one of my favor- 
ite prescriptions.) 

" Waxy paleness of the feet and legs, which 
are swollen/' — Rate. 

u Skin unusually white, and almost trans- 
parent, with ovarian dropsy." — II. 

"Incontinence of urine, with great irritation 

of the parts; worse at night and when cough- 
ing/ 1 — Raits, 
" Intermittent^ ; 'chill about I p.m.j worse in 

a warm room, or near the stove ; renewed chil- 
liness from the slightest motion, with heat of 
face and hands/ Protracted cases; no sweat j 
falls into a deep sleep." — DUNHAM. 

Ascites; urine scanty and dark-colored; 
great soreness of the abdominal walls, with 
stinging, burning pains. 

" Diphtheria, with great debility at the be- 
ginning; the pseudo-membrane assumes at once 
a dirty, grayish color; pufliness around the eyes; 
numbness of the feet and hands." — Raue. 

" Inflammations, with burning and sting- 
ing." — Lippe. 



CHTMAPHILA UMBELLATA. 305 

" Dropsical effusions." — Lippe. 

Bad effects from suppressed scarlet fever. 

" Sensation as though he would not be able 
to breathe again." — P. P. Wells. This may 
be a key-note for this remedy in cases of hy- 
drothorax." — F. 

" Rapid, painful, and spasmodic respiration ; 
aggravated by lying down, and ameliorated by 
inhaling the fresh air in an upright position." 
— F. 

" A most important remedy in hydrothorax, 
and also in basilar meningitis of children, after 
effusion." — F. (See Hah. Monthly, January, 
]S09, page 242; and U. S. Med. and Surg. 
Journal, vol. ii, pages 31 and 129.) 

" Aggravation from heat, especially in a 
warm room." — F. 

"Amelioration, from cold water, of the pain, 
and swelling, and burning." — F. 

CHIMAPHILA UMBELLATA. 

Pipsissewa. 

Acts especially on the mucous membrane of the 
lurinary organs, particularly that of the bladder, 
i 

Its grand key-notes are : 
Great quantities of mucus in the urine. 
Vesical tenesmus, with frequent inclination 
to urinate. 

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306 TEREBINTHINA. 

"Chronic renal and vesical affections, with 
an enormous amount of thick, ropy, mucous 
sediment in the urine ; sometimes it is mixed 
with blood." — Hale. 

TEREBINTHINA. 

Turpentine. 

Acts especially on the kidneys- and urinary mu- 
cous membrane, and on the mucous membrane 
the bowels, especially the colon. Affecl - especially 
the ganglionic oervoos Bystem, and Blightly the 
cerebro-epinal system. 

Pro minen t Characteristic** 

Blood is thoroughly mixed with the urine. 
like coffee-grounds sediment. 

"Burning, drawing pains in the kidnej 

'•Mind clear, then unconscious, followed by 
inability to concentrate his mind." — E. W. 
Rogers. 

"Exhilaration; steep hills were mounted 
without effort" — E. W. Rogers. 

Griping, pinching colic. 

" Pressure in the bladder, extending up into 
the kidneys when sitting, disappearing when 
walking about." — Hale. 

" Burning in the bladder when urinating.' 

Congestion and inflammation of the urinan 
organs, with scanty urination. 



COPAIBA. 307 

" Entero-colitis, with hemorrhages and ul- 
cerations of the bowels, especially epithelial 
degeneration." — Hale. 

u Stools of mucus and water; more in the 
i mornings." — Hale. 

u Tongue smooth and glossy, as if deprived 
of its papilla, in typhoid fevers." — Wood. 

Neuralgia and nervous headaches. 

" Great languor and loss of strength." — Hol- 

COMBE. 

Worms, with foul breath ; choking sensation 
in the throat; dry, hacking cough, vertigo, &c. 

" Dryness of mucous membrane of air-pas- 
sages." — Lippe. 

" Burning in chest, along the sternum." — 
Lippe. 

" Burning in right hypochondrium." — Lippe. 

COPAIBA. 

Copaiva Balsam. 

Acts especially on the urinary mucous membrane, 
particularly that of the urethra ; and on the pulmon- 
ary mucous tissues. 

Prominent Symptoms. 

!( Burning in the urethra. 

"Yellow, purulent discharges from the 
urethra." 



308 CUBEBS. 

"Bloody urine, with constant urging to uri- 
nate, and tendency to chordee." — Franklin. 

Cough, with profuse discharge of greenish 
mucus. 

Especially useful in gonorrhoea. 

" Has cured numerous cases of hematuria in 
women." — F. 

CUBEBS. 

Act- especially on the mucous membrane of the 
kidneys and urinary organs; also on the mucous 

lining of tin: air-pa 

P ro mi nent Sy mp t om * 

Subacute inflammation of the genito-urinary 

apparatus, with ardor urin:i\ 

Retention of urine, and especially if the pa- 
tient lias had gonorrhoea. 

"False membranes; thick and dark; prin- 
cipally in the larynx." — Dr. Houat. 

" Deglutition difficult and very painful, water 
and food often passing through the nose and 
into the larynx, causing cough, with blood." — 
Dr. IIouat. 

Burning pains in every part of the neck. 

" Incessant bronchial cough." — Dr. Houat, 

Barking, croupy cough ; throat feels full and 
choked up. — Dr. Houat. 



HYDRASTIS CANADENSIS. 309 

For membranous croup, this remedy is being 
highly recommended, used in massive doses of 
the tincture. 

HYDRASTIS CANADENSIS. 

Golden Seal. 

Acts especially on the mucous membranes of the 
outlets of the body ; as the mouth, nose, eyes, throat, 
rectum, vagina, uterine cervix, and urinary organs ; 
also upon the glandular and lymphatic systems. 

Prominent Characteristics. 

"After menstruation, leucorrhoea like the 
white of an egg." — Dr. Boyce. 

"Dull, aching pains in the stomach, which 
cause a very weak, faintish feeling." 

" Great sinking at the epigastrium, with 
violent and long-continued palpitation." 

Cachectic condition, with loss of appetite, 
and fainting turns. 

" Goneness in the epigastrium; acidity and 
constipation ; after stool, for hours, severe pain 
in the anus and rectum." 

" Old people, with debility." — Hughes. 

"Cough, with expectoration of thick, yellow, 
very tenacious mucus, stringy and profuse." 

M Erosions and superficial ulceration of the 
cervix and vagina, with tenacious discharge." 
— Hale. 



310 KALI CHLORICUM. 

"Small-pox; great swelling; redness and 
itching, with great soreness of the throal 

Infantile excoriations in the folds of the neck 
and groins. (Use the dry powder.) 

" Stomatitis, with simple ulceration of the 
buccal mucous membrane.'' (The Muriate of 
Hydrastia acts best.) — Hale. 

In cancerous tumors it has of late enjoyed 
quite a reputation; but the characteristic 
not known ; probably of a hard, knotty nature. 

Simple ulcer 

Simple constipation, of a hepatic origin. 

Subacute inflammation of the mucous mem- 
brane of the penis and bladder. 

KALI CHLORICUM. 
Chlorat of Potash, 
Acta especially on the mucous membrane of the 

mouth and urinary organs ; also upon the glandu- 
lar system. 

Grand Characteristic** 

This may he called a specific for aphtha) 
and stomatitis; it will cure almost every ca* 

Heat and dryness of the mouth. 

Peeling off of the lips. 

Burning, stinging blisters on the tongue anc 
buccal cavity. 

Gums inflamed ; very sensitive ; bleed fre- 
quently ; sometimes salivation. 



a-e. 

and 



BORAX. 311 

Very fetid breath. 

Follicular ulcers on the inside of the lips, 
and dorsum of the tongue ; mouth full of saliva; 
glands enlarged and tender. In cachectic con- 
ditions of the whole system. 

BORAX. 

Biborate of Soda. 

Acts especially on the mucous membrane of the 
mouth and intestinal canal ; on the female genera- 
tive organs, and lastly, on the skin. 

Grand Key-notes. 

" Cannot bear a downward motion, as in a 
swing, in a rocking-chair, or in running down 
stairs." — G. 

" Child cannot bear a downward motion, not 
even during sleep ; the downward motion of 
putting it into the bed or cradle, will surely 
awaken it." — G. "Or lifting up its feet to put 
on diaper." — F. 

"Very nervous; cannot sleep well; starts 
at the least noise." — G. 

Child has much colic and indigestion, and 
is extremely nervous and excitable. 

u Aphthae ; the child frequently lets go of the 
nipple ; showing signs of pain in the mouth 
from nursing." — G. 

" Very important in many cases of difficult 



312 . PETROLEUM. 

dentition, and catarrhal affections of little chil- 
dren."— F. 

" Great heat and dryness of the mouth." — (I. 

"Pain from the stomach to the small of the 
back, before the menses." — G. 

"Sterility, or too easy conception." — Lute. 

'•Menses too soon, too profuse, attended 
with colic, nausea, and pain extending from 
the Btomach to the small of the back; with 
sharp pains in the groins. v — G. 

"Labor pains are accompanied by violent 
and frequent eructations/ 1 — (1. 

" White, albuminous leucorrhoea, with a sen- 
sation as if warm water was flowing down." 

— c. 

"Frequent soft, light-yellow, slimy stools, 
with faintness and weakness." — G. 

"Pain in the right pectoral region.* — G. 

"Acne, in plethoric young females, used lo- 
cally/' — Huge 

PETROLEUM. 

Bock OH. 

Acts especially on the mucous membrane of the 
digestive and genito-urinary organs, and upon the 
lymphatic glandular system and skin. 

Grand Characteristics. 

" Brown or yellow spots on the skin." 



PETROLEUM. 31S 

u Red, raw, moist eruption, burns like fire." 
—J. B. Bell. 

" Imagines that another person lies in the 
same bed." — J. B. Bell. 

•• Much diarrhoea through the day; none at 
.-night." 

Stools slimy, with pain in the bowels. 

u Nausea when riding." — G. 

" Particularly applicable in all gastric trou- 
ble of pregnant females." 

" Feeling as if there was a cold stone in the 
heart."— G. 

" Labia majora perspire and itch much." 
— G. 

" Gastralgia, with pressing, drawing pains ; 
.ameliorated by keeping on eating something 
constantly." ( Vide Chelidonium.) 

" Burning and stinging in the anus and rec- 
tum."— G. 

" Raw hemorrhoids ; scurf on the anus." — G. 

" Impaired hearing ; a large quantity of 
thick or thin wax, which is dry and hard, and 
of a brown-red color." — Raue. 

" Bitter, sour taste ; disgust for meat." — G. 

" Cold feeling in the abdomen." — G. 

" Great desire to urinate, with itching of 
the meatus." — Raue. 

" Itching herpes on the perineum." — G. 

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314 CANNABIS SATIVA. 

"Profuse leucorrhcea every day, with las- 
civious dreams at night." — G. 

" Menses cause an itching in the genitals." 
— G. 

"Small wounds Bpread and ulcerate." 

" Spots on the legs are painful to the touch. " 

" Heat in the soles of the feet and palms of 
the hands." 

" Fetid sweat in the axilla*." — G. 

" Tenderness of the feet when they are 
bathed in loul-snielling moisture." — Hl/GIIES. 

" Deep, fistulous ulcers." — (i. 

CANNABIS SATIVA. 

Acts especially on the mucous membrane of the 
bladder, urethra, and prepuce; on the lungs; 
slightly on the cerebrospinal Bjstem, and lastly, 
on the generative organs. 

Grand Characteristics. 

u Great BWellingof the prepuce, approaching 
to phymosis." — Franklin. 

Severe pains in the kidneys, every lew min- 
utes passing bloody urine. 

Inflammatory stage of gonorrhoea, with all 
its painful symptoms ; especially, violent pain, 
of a burning character, in the urethra during 
and after micturition ; strangury. 



APOCYNUM CANNABINUM. 315 

" Dark redness of the glans and prepuce." — 
i Franklin. 

" Light red spots on the glans, of the size 
of a lentil."— Teste. 

Sensation as if drops of cold water were 
falling. 

" Chordee, and mucous discharges." — Teste. 

" Frequent, teasing, hard dry cough.'' — 
Teste. 

Vomiting of green bile. 

Opacities of the cornea ; cataract. 

ERIGERON CANADENSE. 

Canada Fleabane. 
Acts especially on the genito-urinary organs ; on 
the muscular coat of the arteries ; on the glandu- 
lar system ; and lastly, on the mucous membrane 
o{ the colon and rectum. 

Its key-notes are unknown. It is a splendid 
remedy for hemorrhages, from any organ in the 
body, and for many diseases of the kidneys and 
bladder. 

APOCYNUM CANNABINUBI. 

Indian Hemp. 

Acts especially on the mucous membrane of the 
urinary organs, and pneumogastric nerve ; also on 
the lymphatic glandular system of the intestinal 
canal, the skin, and cerebro-spinal system. 

" Acts on the system in four different ways : 



316 APOCYNUM CANNABINUM. 

1. Nausea and vomiting ; 2. Increased alvine dis- 
charges ; 3. Copious perspiration ; 4. Diuresis." — 
Dr. Griscomb. 

Prominent Characteristics. 

All kinds of dropsies, with a " sinking feel- 
ing at the pit of the stomach. " — Hale. 

" Irritable condition of the stomach, that 
cannot contain even a draught of water." — Dr. 
Freligii. 

" Obliged to rit up; lying down produces 
violent dyspnoea. 91 — Dr. Freugh, 

" Urine excessively scanty, thick, yellow, 

and turbid. 91 — Dr. Freugh. 

"Ardor nrin®." — Peters. 

11 Watery diarrhoea, or constipation. " — Dr. 
Rogers. 

" Skin dry and husky." — Hale. 

"Ascites, with bruised feeling in the abdo- 
men. " 






Hydrocephalus; "sutures opened; fore- 
head projecting; Bight of one eye totally lost; 
the other slightly sensible ; stupor; constant 
involuntary motion of one leg and arm; urine 
suppressed ; vomiting, with stupor." — Prof. 
Renwick. 

" General oedema." 

" In idiopathic, chronic, and asthenic forms 
of dropsy, connected with a watery, non-albu- 



ASPARAGUS OFFICINALIS. 317 

minous state of the blood, and general weak- 
ness of the system." — Hale. 
" Hoarse, loose coughs/' — Hale. 

ASPARAGUS OFFICINALIS. 

Asparagus. 

Acts especially on the convoluted tubes of the 
kidneys. 

Key-notes not known, but prominent symp- 
toms for its use are : 

" Countenance pale, wax-like, and bloated." 

" General expression of anxiety and dis- 
tress." 

" Urine scanty and straw-colored, and offen- 
sive to the smell." — Marcy and Hunt. 

" Palpitation of the heart at night." — Marcy. 

" Fulness of the chest." — Marcy and Hunt. 

" Rapid, laborious, and sighing respiration." 
— M. 

" Feeble, irregular pulse." — Marcy and 
Hunt. 

" Great languor, and disinclination to physi- 
cal or mental labor." — Marcy and Hunt. 

" Fretful and feverish." — Marcy and Hunt. 

" Frequent, painful micturition." — Marcy. 

" Pains in the kidneys just under the false 
ribs." 

" Especially adapted to hydrothorax and 

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318 URTICA URENS. 

general dropsy, where the kidneys are more or 
less involved/' — Marcy and Hunt. 



URTICA URENS. 

Stinging ZV3 1& 

Acts especially on the skin, producing inflamma- 
tion of an nrticarious and (Edematous nature: 
the mucous membrane of the digestive organs ; gen- 

ito-urinaiy organs; mammary glands; and slightly 
on the brain. 

Its KEY-NOTES an 4 not known, but prominent 
characteristics ai 

Urticaria, "when the eruptionlooks pale. like 
the Btings of nettles, and requires to be rubbed 
all the time." — G. 

"The upper part of tho body enormously 

Swollen, pale and dropsical, and covered with 

confluent, small, transparent vesicles, tilled 
with serum and Budamina." — Kin 

"Sensation of soreness in the bowels while 
lying down, and on pressure, a sound as if the 
bow r els\vere filled with water." — Shaw. 

"Stools of mucus and blood." — Lippe. 

"Insufficiency, or entire want of secretion 
of milk after parturition." — Lippe. 

"Breasts swell, and fill with a serous fluid, 
and afterwards milk." — Fiard. 



ERECHTHITES — MITCHELLA — EUPHRASIA. 319 

Hemorrhages from the womb, lungs, stom- 
ach, or bowels. 

ERECHTHITES HIERACIFOLIA. 

Fire Weed. 

Acts on the mucous membrane of the digestive 
and urinary organs, as an acrid emeto-cathartic ; 
and on the bloodvessels. 

Its key-notes are unknown; it is used in 
hemorrhages, dysentery, and diseases of the 
kidneys ; especially useful in hemorrhages. 

"This plant, sometimes called Senecio hiera- 
cifolia, has cured old ulcers on the legs. The 
bruised root was applied to the ulcer." — F. 

MITCHELLA REPENS. 

Partridge-berry. 

Acts especially on the genito-urinary organs ; on 
the muscular system, producing an exhausted state 
of the muscles ; and slightly on the nerves of mo- 
tion and sensation. 

Its key-notes are unknown. Is used in dis- 
eases of the uterine organs and kidneys. 

EUPHRASIA. 

Eyebright. 
Acts upon the upper portion of the respiratory 



320 HELLEBORUS NIGER. 

mucous membrane, especially that of the eye. and 
nasal organs. 

Its grand key-notes are : 

" Profuse lachrymation, tears acrid and burn- 
ing."-G. 

" Coryza, with burning tears." — Hughes. 

"Catarrhal inflammation of the eyes and 
nasal organs, with profuse secretion of acrid 
mucus from the eyea and nose, with pain in 
the frontal sinuses/' — Kaue. 

Chemosia, 

HELLEBORUS NIGER. 

Chi 

Acts on the mucous membrane of the digestive 

and urinary organ ially on the serous mem- 

branes, striking down their functional power, so 
as to prevent the separation of effete principle! 
from the Berum, producing the various forms of 

dropsy of the brain, thorax, bowels, and cellular 

tissue, with which it i the 

cerebrospinal >\strm. The ganglionic nervous 
power of the liver and generative organs is more 
or less paralyzed. Lastly, it acts on the skin. 

Grand Characteristics. 

" Urine, after settling, looks like coffee- 
grounds.'' — G. 

u Diarrhoea of jelly-like mucus." — Raue. 



SAMBUCUS NIGRA. 321 

"Slow comprehension." — Raue. 

u Shocks pass through the brain like elec- 
tricity." 

" Soporous sleep, with screaming and start- 
ing." — G. 

" Face pale and puffed." — G. 

u Nostrils, dirty and dry." — Raue. 

" Lower jaw sinking down." — Raue. 

" Chewing motions with the mouth." — Raue. 

" Frequent rubbing of the nose." — G. 

" Squinting pupils dilated." — G. 

" Easily made angry." — Raue. 

" Forehead drawn in folds, and covered with 
cold perspiration." — G. 

" Automatic motions of one arm and one 
leg."— Raue. 

Various forms of dropsy, from simple paral- 
ysis of the functional power of the serous mem- 
branes, coming on suddenly. Hydrocephalus. 

SAMBUCUS NIGRA. 

Common Elder. 

Acts on the skin as a powerful sudorific, and on 
the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract. 

Characteristics. 

Profuse debilitating sweats. 

Useful in catarrhal affections, whooping- 



322 EUPATORIUM PURPUREUM. 

cough, suffocative; expectoration by day, scan- 
ty, tough. 

Suffocative attacks ; asthma of Millar. 



URANIUM. 
Irate of 

Acts especially on the kidneys, producii 

in the urine. 

Especially useful in diabetes, and ineonti- 
nence of mine. 
Excessive lacteal secretion. 

EUPATORIUM PURPUREUM. 

hw. 

Acts especially on the urinary organs and gan* 
glionic nervous system, Acts upon the digestive 
organs, but just how, La not known. 

Brand Characteristic** 

u Much smarting and burning in the urethra 
during urination. M — Dr. DRESSER, 

"Constant desire to urinate; passes but ft 
few drops at a time, and is obliged to make 
the effort very often." — Dr. B. L. DrSSSI 

" Suppression of urine, with restlessness and 
moaning. v — Dr. DRESSER. 

" Burning distress in the bladder/' — Dr. 
Dresser. 



EUPATORIUM PURPUREUM. 323 

Deep, dull, aching pains in tlie bladder. 

Profuse urination. — Dr. Dresser. 

Urine mixed with mucus. — Dr. Dresser. 

" Dull, aching pains in the region of the kid- 
neys." — Dr. Dresser. 

Rheumatic pains in the lumbar region. 

u Numbness of the legs." — Dr. Dresser. 

Renal dropsy; body and extremities enor- 
mously oedematous ; scanty secretion of urine, 
and distressing dyspnoea. — Dr. Dresser. 

11 The lower belly swollen and hot, in sup- 
pression of urine." — Dr. Dresser. 

" Excessive irritation of the bladder, with 
large deposits of lithiates." — Hale. 

"Catarrhus vesicae, attended with ulcera- 
tion." — Hale. 

Intermittent fever; "chill commences in the 
back, and then spreads over the body." — Hale. 

" Violent shaking, with comparatively little 
coldness." — Hale. 

" No thirst during the chill, but much fron- 
tal headache." — Hale. 

Fever for several hours ; nausea and vomit- 
ing, with thirst. 

"Not much sweat; in moving during the 
sweat, a chilliness would pass through the 
body." — Dresser. 

" Paroxysms come on at different times of 
the day, every other day." 



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324 STICTA PULMONARIA. 

Severe bone-pains. — Dr. Von Tagen. 

" Weak, tired, (insupportable feeling." 

Night sweats; hectic fever. 

" Head feels light ; cannot get rid of the 
sensation as if the head was falling to the left 
side." — Dr. Dresser. 

" All symptoms are worse on left side of the 
body." — Dr. Dresser. 

" A heavy, furred tongue; hrown along the 
centre, and a hitter, pappy taste, with the 
chill." 

STICTA PULMONARIA. 

Li 

This Lichen acta especially on the mucous n 
brane of tin' air-passages ; also affects the tihrous 
tissues, and the nervous system. 

CharUU d ri sties. 
Its great sphere of usefulness is in catarrhal 

affections of the air-p s, and rheumatisms. 

" Excessive dryness of the nasal mucous 

« 

membrane." — Dr. Boyce. 

"The secretions are bo quickly dried, that 
they are discharged after great effort* in the 

form of hard Bcabs." — Boyce. 

"The soft palate felt like dried leather." 
"Deglutition painful, from the same cause." 
"Cough at first dry and hacking, from tick- 



ZINGIBER. 325 

. ling in the larynx, which finally extends to 
I the lungs." — D. S. Jones. 

" In sleeplessness of children, after surgical 
I operations (setting fractured leg, e. g.), I have 
1 found it to act like a charm." — F. 

" It is often useful in cases of insomnia from 
various causes." — F. 

" The characteristic of Sticta in catarrhal 
affections (nasal), is a constant necessity of 
blowing the nose, but no discharge results; 
analogous to the well-known symptom of Nux 
vomica, futile calls to stool." — F. 

ZINGIBER. 

Ginger. 

Affects especially the mucous membrane of the 
intestinal canal. 

Grand Characteristics. 

" Bad, slimy taste in the mouth, with acid 
stomach and diarrhoea." — M. N. 

" Increased secretion of mucus, without 
^ fever." — Strumpf. 

" Complaints from eating melons." — Ebn. 
Nasah. 

" Vomiting of slime, especially with old 
drunkards." — Strumpf. 

" Nausea after stool in the morning." — Fr. 

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326 ZINGIBER. 

Much flatulency. 

Diarrhoea, especially in the morning. 

"Diarrhoea from drinking impure wa1 
often in the United States Army; relieved 
a few drops of the tincture in water." — Tai i 

"Smarting sensation below the larynx, fol- 
lowed by a cough, with rattling of phlegm/ 1 — 
Fb. 

"Urino. increased Becretion of; thick, tun 

bidj retention of after typhus." — Lii 

Menstruation too early, too profuse; Mood 
dark, clotted. 

Dry. hacking cough, with pain in the lungs 
and difficult breathing ; in the mornin 
pectoration. 

Dull aching in both ki<ln< ition of 

heal in the left kidney ). with desire to urinate. 

( Ireat sleepiness ; coma. 
Chilliness beginning in the lower limbs, and 
going upwards. 

Hot and chilly at the same time. 



COLOCYNTH. 



327 



GROUP X. 



Colocynth, 

Dioscorea, 

Collinsonia, 

Plumbum, 

Jalapa, 



Scammonium, 
Mezereum, 
Gummi guttee, 
Elaterium, 
Rheum. 



This group represents, in the Allopathic school, 
their most powerful drastic, hydragogue cathar- 
tics. In our school, their grand sphere of useful- 
ness lies among the neuroses, affecting more par- 
ticularly the abdominal plexuses of nerves, and 
various branches of the sentient nervous system. 
This may be called the colic group. 



COLOCYNTH. 

Bitter Cucumber. 



" Acts particularly upon the sentient nerves, es- 
pecially upon those which go to make up the plexus 
cceliacus. It likewise acts upon the trigeminus or 
fifth pair, upon the sacral plexus, upon the lumbar 
and crural nerves, and upon the mucous and fibrous 
tissues over which these nerves are ramified. In 
affecting the cceliac plexus, it may give rise to in- 
flammatory symptoms in the bowels ; and, in af- 
fecting the crural nerve, its action may lead to 
paralysis of the extremity. Its action upon the 
trigeminus is manifested by various neuralgic af- 
fections of the face, eyes, and head. It may like- 



328 COLOCYNTH. 

wise cause sympathetic irritations in the lungs 
and heart, by its action upon the peripheral ex- 
tremities of the pneumogastric nerve, through the 
connection existing between this nerve and the so- 
lar plexus, by means of the great sympathetic." — 
Hempel. 

Grand Characteristics. 

" Terrible colicky pains, causing him to bend 
up double, with great restlessness, moaning, 
and lamenting." — G. 

" Severe colicky pains, mostly around the 
navel ; has to bend double, being worse in any 
other posture, but with great restlessness, and 
loud screaming, on changing it ; worse at in- 
tervals of five or ten minutes." — II. 

" Colic bo distressing, that they seek relief 
by pressing corners of tables or heads of bed- 
posts against the abdomen.' 1 — II. 

" Child writhes in every possible direction; 
doubles itself up. and screams in great distress; 
it cries very hard." — (i. 

"Feeling in the whole abdomen as if the in- 
testines were being squeezed between stones." 
— G. 

"Cutting, as from knives in the bowels.* 
— G. 

Much distress and distension of the abdomen, 
with diarrhoea, which is aggravated by every- 
thing eaten or drank. 



COLOCYNTH. 329 

" Inflammation of the bowels, in consequence 
of violent indignation." — G. 

" Affections from anger, with indignation, 
particularly vomiting and diarrhoea." — G. 

u More cutting pain in the bowels than ten- 
esmus ; with great tenderness of the abdomen 
to contact ; desire to bend double." — G. 

" Intense boring or tensive pain in the 
ovary, causing her to bend up double, with 
great restlessness, moaning, and lamentations." 
— G. 

" Dysentery, where the disease is located in 
the small intestines ; stools slimy, bloody, like 
scrapings ; during stool, sometimes tenesmus, 
at other times not ; after stool, relief of the 
pain." — Hughes. 

" Bloody diarrhoea, with violent pain in the 
bowels, extending down the thighs." — G. 

" Dysentery like diarrhoea, renewed each 
time after taking the least food or drink." 

" Chronic, watery diarrhoea in the morning, 
with pain in the sides of the abdomen." — 
Raue. 

M Diarrhoea after indignation ; stools green." 
— G. 

" Urinates small quantities, with frequent 
urging; fetid, thickening, viscid, jelly-like 
urine." 

" Dysuria ; straining ineffectual ; worse be- 

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330 COLOCYNTH. 

fore, during, and after urination, which is 
scanty." — Hempel. 

" Cephalalgic pain ; tearing, screwing, to- 
gether with great restlessness and anxiety 
— R. 

'•'Neuralgia of the face; tensive, tearing, 
with heat and swelling; especially left aid 
motion and touch increase the pain; better 
from rest and warmth. n — Raue. 

"The nerves about the hip joint Buffer most 
severely; the pain darting sometimes down 
the anterior crural, and sometimes down the 
sciatic trunks, even to the feet. 93 — HroilES. 

"Great thirst." — IIai 

"Bitter taste in the mouth." — IIkmpel. 

u Constant heat and dragging ]»ain in the 

vagina, with swelling of the labia. 91 — GK 

"Does not like to talk, to answer, to see 

friends."— H. 

"Pains in the limbs; worse from Blight 

touching, and then increasing gradually." — II. 

"Improvement, from drinking cold wai 
— H. 

Pains worse from motion. 
Adapted to choleric temperaments. 

" The grand sphere of Colocynth lies among 
the neuroses, especially where pain is the m 
prominent feature. It is in colic and sciatica 
that its greatest triumphs have been achieved." 



DIOSCOREA VILLOSA. 331 

Also in neuralgia of the fifth nerve, of the solar 
and other abdominal plexuses, and of the lum- 
bar and femoral nerves. 

DIOSCOREA VILLOSA. 

Wild Yam Boot 
Acts especially upon the umbilical and coeliac 
plexuses of nerves ; and upon the muscular tissues 
over which these nerves are ramified ; also on the 
liver, and upon many portions of the sentient ner- 
vous system. 

The grand sphere for the use of Dioscorea 
is among the neuroses of the bowels and stom- 
ach ; where the coeliac and umbilical plexuses 
of nerves are in a great state of hyperesthesia, 
the pain and spasm is unbearable. 

Spasmodic stricture of the urethra. 

" Disposition to paronychia (felons)." — J. 
B. Bell. 

u Steady twisting pains in the bowels ; worse 
when lying down." — Helmuth. 

" Cramps of the stomach, w r ith a tendency 
to eructate." — Helmuth. 

" Spasmodic colic, w T ith much flatulence." — 
Hale. 

" Pulsating pain at the upper part of the 
sternum." 

" Great burning distress in the stomach, with 
prickling pains in it." — B. 



332 COLLINSOXIA CANADENSIS 

" Great faintness at the stomach." — B. 

"Profuse, deep-yellow, thin stool, follow 
by a very weak, faint feeling, without relieving 
the pain in the bowels." — B. 

Morning diarrhoea, 

" Constant, heavy pain in the pit of the stom- 
ach ; worse after eating, and which is relieved 
by copious eructations of air." — 1>. 

" Spasmodic pains in the abdomen, with un- 
usually severe tenesmus." — P>. 

" Distressing pyrosis.' 1 — IIklmitii. 

" Dysentery, with violent. Lancinating pains 

in the bowels/ 1 — Db. Rogers. 

"Just before and during stool a Bevere pain 
in the sacral region and bowels, of a writhii 
drawing character; the pains radiate upwards 
and downwards, until the whole body and ex- 
tremities become involved with spasms." — B, 

COLLINSONIA CANADENSIS. 
StOTU // 

Acts on the abdominal plexi . and 

through them on the whole intestinal canal, bul 

more especially upon the rectum and small in* 

tines. 1 1 also affecte the liver, kidneys, and heart ; 
hut just how, is not yet understood. 

The grand sphere for Collinsonia is in neu- 
roses of the bowels, where pain is one of the 



eOLLINSONIA CANADENSIS. 333 

most prominent symptoms ; and especially in 
diseases of the rectum, such as constipation, 
hemorrhoids, diarrhoea, and dysentery. 

" Obstinate and habitual constipation, asso- 
ciated with hemorrhoids." — Dr. Fowler. 

u Severe weight in the rectum, with an in- 
tense irritation, itching, and a sensation in the 
rectum as if sticks, sand, or gravel had lodged 
. there."— Hale. 

" Constipation ; stools lumpy, and light-col- 
ored, with straining, and dull pain in the anus." 

" It is in constipation and hemorrhoids, from 
congestive inertia of the lower bowel, that Col- 
; linsonia proves such a precious remedy, espe- 
cially in the latter months of pregnancy." — 
Hughes. 

"In large doses, it irritates the rectum so 
much as to set up a diarrhoea, soon running on 
into dysentery. It has not been used to any 
extent in complaints of this kind, but in proc- 
titis and rectal dysentery it should rival aloes." 
— Hughes. 

" Pains in the epigastrium, in constipation 
and piles." — Prof. G. W. Barnes. 

" Severe colicky pains in the hypogastrium 
every few minutes, with fainting ; has to sit 
down to get relief." — B. 

" Stools are all preceded and followed by se- 
vere pains in the hypogastrium." — B. 



334 PLUMBUM METALLICUM. 

" Stools of mucus, or mucus and blood, or 
pure blood, with more or less tenesmus." — B. 

" Copious, watery stools, with nausea and 
fainting." — B. 

"Hemorrhages; blood dark and tough, en- 
veloped in viscid phlegm; previous discharge 
of blood per anum ; subsequent coetiv< 
— Dr. Liebold. 

PLUMBUM METALLICUM. 

L 

Acts on the cerebro-spii i m, and especi- 

ally upon the sympathetic nerv< em. 

Its action is so completely paralyzed, that nutri- 
tion of t he various tie specially the muscular 
tissue, La nearly, or quite destroyed The nervous 
centres arc Boftened and indurated, and we have 
anaesthesia, atrophy, paralysis; the bodily and 
mental powers are completely prostrated; spas- 
modic pains in the abdomen ; contraction of the 
colon, and obstinate constipation. 

Grand f ha racteri stirs. 

"Sensation as if drawing in from the abdo- 
men to the back, with great depression of 
spirits."— G. 

"Obstinate constipation, the feces eompo 

of lumps, packed together like sheep's dun. 
— G. 

" Constipation, with violent colic." — G. 



PLUMBUM METALLICUM. 335 

" Sensation as if a rough body were travers- 
ing the rectum during stool." — G. 

" Severe colic, with contracted abdomen, 
and bending backwards." — G. 

" Much trouble with the urine, in not being 
able to pass it, apparently from want of sensa- 
tion to do so ; the will to do so cannot effect it, 
as if from paralysis." — G. 

Complete paralysis of the urinary organs. 

" A sensation in the abdomen, at night in 
bed, which causes the patient to stretch vio- 
lently for hours together; sometimes she must 
stretch in every possible direction, or she feels 
that she must do so, and this inclination is so 
strong that it is almost uncontrollable." — G. 

u Menorrhagia, with a sensation of a string 
pulling from the abdomen to the back." — G. 

" Cessation of the menses, on the invasion 
of colic, but they reappear after the paroxysm, 
or not again until the next period." — G. 

" Leucorrhoea, with a continual sense of draw- 
ing in from the abdomen to the back." — G. 

u Complete impotence, with excessive emaci- 
ation, and great debility." — Hempel. 

" Pale dry skin, with liver spots." — G. 

" Badly smelling sweat of the feet." — G. 

" Sciatica, with drawing, pressing pains." 

" Hectic fever, with dry hacking cough, and 
great exhaustion." — Hempel. 



336- JALAPA. 

" Chronic spinal meningitis, when the para- 
lyzed parts soon fall away in flesh, and the 
limbs are painfully contracted." 

" Fluids can be swallowed without difficulty; 
solids come back into the mouth again." — G. 

" Long-continued stupid feeling in the head." 
— G. 

General or partial paralysis, with atrophy 
and w r asting away of the tissi; 

JALAPA. 

Jalap* 

Acts on the intestinal canal, augmenting it 
cretions, producing copious liquid >in- 

ponied with more or less spasmodic action of the 
intestines; with fever, Bhowing thai the great 
sympathetic Bystem is more or less involved; 
slightly affects the urinary organs. 

Its KEY-NOTES are unknown, hut prominent 
symptoms for its use are : 

Watery, sour diarrhoea, especially in infants, 
with restlessness and crying, nausea and vom- 
» iting; with griping pains in the bowels, and 
watery diarrhoea. 

Screams and nightly restlessness of infants. 
— Hahnemann. 

Painful diarrhoea of infants, with violent 
restlessness and crying. — Nenning. 



SCAMMONIA — DAPHNE MEZEREUM. 337 

SCAMMONIA. 

Seammony. 

Acts powerfully on the intestinal canal, produc- 
ing copious watery stools, severe colicky pains, and 
inflammation of the mucous lining of the bowels. 
Its characteristics are unknown. 

DAPHNE MEZEREUM. 

Spurge Olive. 

Acts on the abdominal plexuses, and various 
parts of the sentient, nervous system. Increases 
the secretions of the intestinal canal ; producing 
copious watery stools, with more or less griping 
pains ; also nausea, vomiting, and gastro-enteritis. 
Especially affects the periosteum. 

Grand Characteristics. 

" Periostitis, and swelling of the bones, es- 
pecially on the tibia, with most violent nightly 
pains in the bones." — G. 

" Boring, pressing pains, coming like light- 
ning, which leavie the parts numbed." — G. 

Violent, nightly toothache. 

" Great emaciation ; muscles of the face 
tensely drawn like strings." — Hempel. 

Violent pain and pressure in the stomach 
after eating most simple things, like broth, 
milk, bread, &c. 

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338 GUMMI GUTT^ — ELATERIUM. 

" Chocolate -colored vomiting, with hard 
lumps in the epigastrium." — Hempel. 

u Prolapsed rectum, which remains strangu- 
lated ; very painful when touched." — Hempel. 

GUMMI GTJTTJE. 

Gambi 

Acts especially on the gastrointestinal canal, 
causing violent vomiting, purging, Byncope, and 
death ; all the Bymptoms \rry much resemble tliose 

of cholera. Important also in some a Meet ions of 
the eyes. 

Grand Characteristics* 

Violent vomiting, with purging and tainting. 

"Profuse watery diarrhoea, with colic and 
tenesmus/ 3 — Hempel. 

Diarrhoea, of water and mucus, with colic 
in the umbilicus during stooL 

The symptoms are aggravated while sitting, 
and in the evening. 

ELATERIUM. 

Fruit of Mvmordica EUU 

Acts on the gastro-intestinal canal in a peculiar 
manner. Dr. T. K. Chambers Bays, ** It causes an 
enormous flow of watery serum from the first mu- 
cous membrane that absorbs it. If its vapor be 
drawn up into the nostrils for a short time, it is a 
powerful errhine, and is followed by the secretion 



RHEUM. 339 

of floods of water from the Sehneideriaii mem- 
brane. If it is dissolved in the oesophagus it 
causes such a deluge of the gastric fluids, that the 
stomach cannot contain them, and they are re- 
jected by vomiting. If it succeeds in passing the 
pylorus, a choleraic diarrhoea gashes forth, strip- 
ping the membrane of its epithelium, just like its 
morbid prototype." 

Its characteristics are unknown. 



RHEUM. 

Rhubarb. 

Acts on the nervous plexus of the abdomen, and 
through it, on the muscles of the bowels, through- 
out the whole length of the intestinal canal ; also 
on the liver, and urinary organs. 

Grand Characteristics. 

Sour diarrhoea, with cutting pains about the 
navel. 

" Much colic, w r ith very sour stools." — G. 

" Very sour smell of the child, which can- 
not be removed by any amount of washing 
and care in keeping it clean." — G. 

Fetid, papescent diarrhoea, with high-colored 
urine and distension of the abdomen. 

" Colic in children made w r orse, at once, by 
uncovering an arm or a leg." — Raue. 



340 



GROUP ELEVENTH. 



GROUP XI. 



Asafcetida, 
Valeriana, 
Valerianate of Zinc 
Scutellaria, 
Ambra grisea, 
Nux moschata, 

milium. 



Platina, 

ftioschus, 

Chamomilla, 

Castoiemn, 

Cypripedium, 

Agniu castas, 

Mephitis. 



Tma group constitutes our main remediee 
hysteria, and may be termed the hysterical group. 

"The ovaries, as the head-centre of the Bezual 
Bystem, musl n<>\\ be regarded a- the real fens et 
origo } the fountain-head of all hysterical aff 
tions. Eysteria extends its influence over the en- 
tire sexual apparatus; from its profound connection 
with the sympathetic Bystem, may extend its in- 
fluence to all the involuntary organs, and by its 
final extension to the cerebrospinal nervous - 
tern, may involve also all the voluntary muscles; 

but its original seat and constant wura must be 

found in the ovarii 
"Hysteria is as truly and as exclusively du< 

irritability of the ovaries, as irritable uterus and 
hysteralgia are to a similar condition of the uterus." 
Wk Hysteria is a purely nervoi , which, 

being to a great extent hereditary in its origin, 
finds its primary seat in the ganglionic <>r <jn<it m 
pathetic nervous system, which, in this extended de- 



ASAFCETIDA. 341 

velopment, occupies the motor rather than the sen- 
sory nerve-filaments, and which thus finally results 
in spasmodic contractions, rather than in poignant 
sensations." 

" These spasms first appear in those parts of the 
body and muscular tissues which are in immediate 
relation with the abdominal, the cceliac, and the 
thoracic ganglia." 

I have now given the true seat of hysteria, and 
from this the student can, at once, get an idea of 
not only the action of this group of remedies, but 
also the organs and tissues they affect* 

ASAFCETIDA. 

Asqfoetida. 

Acts especially on that portion of the great sym- 
pathetic nervous system that presides over the 
sexual organs of woman ; especially the ovaries 
and niammse. Through the great sympathetic, its 
action is extended to the cerebro-spinal nervous 
system, affecting more especially the motor ner- 
vous system. It also increases the secretion of the 
gastro-intestinal mucous membrane, and alvine 
evacuations. Especially affects the bones. 

Grand Characteristics. 

" Hysterical spasms, with much trouble 
about the oesophagus." — G. 

" Every excitement that brings on hysteri- 
cal symptoms, points to the oesophagus." — G. 

u Sensation of pressure, or as if a body or 

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342 ASAFCETIDA. 

lump were ascending in the oesophagus, oblig- 
ing frequent deglutition to keep it down." — G. 

" This feeling in the oesophagus causes great 
difficulty in breathing." — G. 

" Soreness in the oesophagus, preceded by 
burning." — G. 

"Darting upwards, towards the oesophagus, 
from the chest." — G. 

Eructations, of a smell like garlic or fa ■■ 

"Accumulation of gas, constantly pressing 
upwards; none downwards." — Ham:. 

Pulsations in the pit of tlie stoniarli. 

"Watery, liquid stools, of the most disgust- 
ing smell;" or constipation. 

"Leucorrhoea; profuse, greenish, thin, and 
offensive." — G. 

"Menses, scanty and too early." — G. 

Mamma) become turgid with milk, in th 
who are not pregnant, as during the ninth 
month. 

"Excessive sensibility of the vital organ- 
ism/'— G. 

"Flushes in the face; constant change of 
mind; fits of great joy and laughter, or anx- 
ious sadness." — G. 

Particularly adapted to nervous, hysterical, 
scrofulous individuals, with venous, hemor- 
rhoidal constitution, and phlegmatic tempera- 
ment. 



VALERIANA. 343 

Scrofulous caries of the bones; the ulcer has 
high, hard edges; bleeds easily; is sensitive; 
with a profuse, greenish, thin, offensive dis- 
charge, accompanied with an hysterical tem- 
perament. 

" Most pains are accompanied by numbness 
in the affected parts." — Raue. 

" Important also in some forms of tertiary 
syphilis; especially mercurio-syphilitic affec- 
tions of the bones and joints." — F. 

VALERIANA. 

Valeriana Officinalis. 

Acts especially on the great sympathetic, and, 
through it, on the cerebro-spinal system, especially 
affecting the nerves of motion. 

Grand Characteristics. 

Excessive nervous excitability, in hysterical 
temperaments. 

Especially suited to hysterical females, where 
the intellect predominates over the mind. 

" Feels a sensation as if a thread was hang- 
ing down in the throat, with tickling deep in 
her throat."— G. 

" Sensation of something warm rising in the 
.throat, arresting breathing." — G. 

White lips ; body icy cold ; with faintness. 

" Vertigo in hysterical females." — G. 



344 VALERIANATE OF ZINC — SCUTELLARIA. 

Hysterical spasms, with fearfulness and 
tremulousness, with palpitation of the heart. 

Spasms of the stomach in lymphatic, 1 
terical women. (Sovereign remedy.) 

Neuralgia; the pain is unbearable. 

Sciatica; " the pain is unendurable while 
standing, with a feeling as if the thigh would 
break off/' — Eaue. 

Hysterical dyspnoea and chorea. 

VALERIANATE OF ZINC. 

Affects the great sympathetic, and, through it, 
the cerebrospinal system. 

Of this precious remedy. I cannot give the 
key-liotefl ; but among all the remedies for ner- 
vous, hysterical subjects, this is one of the I>< 
I use it for almost every disease with great 

nervous irritability, with the best results; and 
hope the profession will develop its therapeutic 
properties. 

SCUTELLARIA. 
Skullcap. 

Acts on the great sympathetic, and, through it, 

on the cerebrospinal axis; especially affecting the 
motor spinal nerve-. 

Its key-notes are unknown ; but it is a most 
valuable remedy in many nervous diseases, es- 



AMBRA GRISEA. 345 

pecially hysteria, sympathetic irritation of the 
nerve-centres in children, tremors and twitch- 
ing of the limbs, chorea, catalepsy, epilepsy, 
hydrophobia, and many spasmodic affections. 
It is especially adapted to the hysterical tem- 
perament. 

I once cured a case of gastralgia, of a vio- 
lent and obstinate nature, in a very fleshy, 
lymphatic, hysterical lady, with this remedy, 
after two days' trial with the usual remedies. 

AMBRA GRISEA. 

Gray Amber. 

Acts on the sympathetic and cerebro-spinal ner- 
vous systems, especially affecting that portion of 
the nervous system that presides over the sexual 
organs and motor nerves. 

Grand Characteristics. 

Extremely nervous, hysterical subjects. 

" Discharge of thick, bluish-w r hite mucus 
from the vagina," only at night. 

" Discharge of blood between the periods, at 
every little accident ; for instance, after a very 
hard stool, or after a walk a little longer than 
usual." — G. 

" Stitches in the ovarian region, when draw- 
ing in the abdomen, or pressing upon it." — G. 

" Pain as from soreness and violent itching; 
the vulva is swollen." — G. 



346 NUX MOSCHATA. 

" During urination there is a burning, smart- 
ing, itching, and titillation of the vulva and 
urethra." — G. 

Hysteria, with fainting fits, and dry spas- 
modic cough. 

" Choking and vomiting can hardly be avoid- 
ed when hawking up phlegm from the fauces." 
— Raue. 

Frequent micturition of copious, pale urine. 

Spasmodic choking. 

Great languor in the morning. 

( (old feel and le_ 

"Nervous vertigo, to which old people are 
subject*" — HuGHEa 

"Sleep disturbed by coldness of the body, 
and twitchings of the limbs." — (i. 

"Hastiness and QerVOUS excitement when 
talking/ 7 — Rai :e. 

Spasms of the facial muscles, 

NUX MOSCHATA. 

Nutmeg* 

Acts on the great sympathetic and cerebro- 
spinal nervous systems, especially affecting the 
generative organs of women, and the motor ner- 
vous system. 

G ra n d Ch a ra ( twist | vs. 

"Enormous distension of the abdomen after 
every nieal." — G. 



NUX MOSCHATA. 347 

"Awakens with a very dry mouth; the 
tongue is so dry it sticks to the mouth." — G. 

" Sudden change from grave to gay, from 
-lively to serene." — G. 

" Excessive tendency to laughter." — G. 

" Nervous irritation of the intestinal tract; 
stomach and abdomen especially distended, 
and all her symptoms worse after every un- 
pleasant emotion." 

" At every menstrual nisus, the throat, 
mouth, and tongue become intolerably dry, 
particularly when sleeping." — G. 

" Leucorrhcea in women, who always awa- 
ken with a very dry tongue." — G. 

" Great pressure in the back, from within 
outwards, during the menses." — G. 

During pregnancy has great fulness of the 
stomach, with difficulty in breathing. 

Menses too early and too profuse, with dis- 
charge of thick, black blood; tongue and mouth 
very dry, particularly after sleeping. 

" Fainting, with palpitation of the heart, fol- 
lowed by sleep." — H. 
\ "Very sluggish flow of ideas." — H. 

u Pains in the teeth, from inhaling cold air, 
or taking warm drinks." — H. 

" Feeling as if the teeth were being grasped 
jto be pulled out." — Raue. 



348 NUX MOSCHATA. 

" Especially adapted to people with dry skin, 
and who do not perspire easily." — Raue. 

"Spasms of the head and forehead/' 

u All the ailments are accompanied by sleep- 
iness and inclination to faint." — Lippe. 

"While eating, soon satisfied; headache from 
eating a little too much." — H. 

"Chronic diarrhoea, caused by pregnancy ." 

"Antidotes the effects of too large dose- 
Calc. c, in children." — F. 

" Diarrhoea, with disposition to faint. " — F. 

"Suppression of menses from exposure to the 
wet, with severe pains in the abdomen." — F. 

"SleepineM in some eases, disposition to 
faint in others, are remarkably characteristic 
of Nux moschata." — F. 

"Diarrhoea, undigested, or like chopped eggs, 
with loss of appetite and great sleepiness; in 
summer, with children.'' — II. 

"Menorrhagia; blood thick, dark, with such 
as have had catamenia very irregularly." — H. 

" Pain in sacrum, when riding in a carriage/' 
— H. 

"Sudden hoarseness from walking against 
the wind." 

" Cough when becoming warm in bed/' — H. 

Its great field of action is in diseases of an 
hysterical character. 



PLATINA. 349 

PLATINA. 

Platinum. 

Acts upon the great sympathetic, especially the 
abdominal and pelvic plexuses, and upon the cere- 
brospinal axis, affecting both the motor and sen- 
sory nerves ; and lastly, it especially affects the 
generative organs of woman. 

The grand key-notes for platina are : 

"Very nervous spasmodic temperaments." 
— G. 

Hysteria, with much depression of spirits. 

Melancholia in females with uterine diseases. 

" Excessive sexual desire, particularly in 
virgin females." — G. 

" Voluptuous tingling in the vulva, and ab- 
domen, w T ith depression of spirits, anxiety, and 
palpitation of the heart." — G. 

u Mons veneris cold and excessively sensi- 
tive to the touch, cannot bear the napkins 
usually applied." — G. 

" Labor-pains are suspended by the very 
painful sensitiveness of the vagina, and exter- 
nal genital organs; the pains are spasmodic 
and excessively painful." — G. 

" Menses in excess ; blood dark and thick, 
with chilliness and sensitiveness of the vulva." 
— G. 

Metrorrhagic discharge of thick, black blood. 

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350 PLATIXA. 

" Albuminous leucorrhoea, only in the day- 
time, with great sensitiveness of the vagin 
— G. 

" Stool exceedingly difficult ; it adheres to 
the rectum and anus like soft clay." — G. 

" Much threatening of the menses to come 
on."-^. 

" Amenorrhoea, with painful pressure, a 
the menses would appear, with pain in the 
small of the back." — G. 

" Metrorrhagia, with sensation as if the hody 
was growing larger every way.'' — G. 

••Ovaritis; the pain in the region of the 
ovary is of a burning character, occurring in 
paroxysms, with stitches ill the forehead, and 

excessive sexual desire." — (i. 

u Great bearing down to the genitals, with 
profuse menstruation." — G. 

••Much anguish ; she feels as if she would 

lose her senses and die soon." — G. 

" Feeling of numbness, with trembling and 
palpitation of the heart." — G. 

"Anxiety, weeping, palpitation of the heart, 
with a numb feeling in the malar bones, as if 
the parts were between screws." — Raub. 

" Self-exaltation and contempt for othe 
— G. 

u The physical symptoms disappear, and the 
mental symptoms appear, and vice versd." — G. 



moschus. 851 

" Past events trouble her." — G. 

" On entering a room after a walk every- 
thing looks small ; she feels large and looks 
down upon them." — Douglas. 

Hysterical cough from stifling behind the 
upper fourth of the sternum. 

Old syphilitic and sycosic affections. 

Indurations of the uterus. 

MOSCHTTS. 

Musk. 

Acts especially on the cerebrospinal and sexual 
systems, and upon the motor nervous system. 

Characteristics. 

" Especially adapted to hysterical parox- 
ysms, and nervous palpitation, even when it 
has gone as far as unconsciousness." 

Palpitation of the heart from nervous excite- 
ment. 

" Violent sexual desire, with intolerable tit- 
illation in the genital organs." — G. 

" Menses too early, too profuse, with intoler- 
able titillation in the genital organs." — G. 

" The sight of food makes her sick." — G. 

" Eructations, with hot saliva in the mouth." 

" Eructations tasting of garlic." — G. 

*• Vomiting of the food, then subsequent 
vomiting, and more vomiting." — G. 



352 CHAMOMILLA. 

" Hysteric spasms, with fainting ; crying one 
moment, and next moment bursts out in in- 
controllable laughter." — G. 

u Nervous, suffocative constriction of the 
chest/' — Hughes. 

CHAMOMILLA. 
Chamomile* 

Acts especially on the sensory and excitO-DQ 
nervous system, and also extends its influence to 
the emotional nerve-centres. Also affects the pneu- 

inogastric nerve, and alimentary canal, especially 
the liver. 

Or a m d Characteristic* 

"Becomes almost furious about the pains; 
worse in open air and nights.' 1 — (1. 

" Often gives vent to her ill-humor, in spite 

of all restraint. n — G. 

"Very impatient, can hardly answer one 
civilly."— G. 

"Contrary to her condition in health, she 
is always out of humor, particularly at her 
menstrual period, when she is headstrong, even 
unto quarrelling/' — G. 

Can hardly speak a pleasant word. 

"Child is excessively fretful; must be car- 
ried up and down the room all the time; is 
only quiet then." — G. 



CHAMOMILLA. 353 

u Child starts and jumps much during sleep." 
— G. 

"Child wants different things, and repels 
them when getting them." — H. 

Inflammation brought on by a fit of passion. 

One cheek red, the other pale. 

" The epigastrium is painfully bloated in the 
morning, with sensation as if the contents were 
pressing into the chest." — Raue. 

" Severe colic ; abdomen distended like a 
drum ; wind passes off only in small quanti- 
ties."— G. 

"Colic, with green diarrhoea and restless- 
ness."— G. 

"Abdominal pains, with frequent emissions 
of large quantities of pale urine." — G. 

" Diarrhoea : green, and watery, and slimy, 
or like chopped eggs and spinach." — G. 

" Green, watery, corroding stools, with colic, 
thirst, bitter taste, or bitter eructations." — G. 

Stools smell like rotten eggs. 

" Bitter taste, with bilious vomiting." — G. 

" Hot diarrhoeic stools, smelling like rotten 
i eggs.'— G. 

" Painless, green, watery diarrhoea; mixture 
of feces and mucus." — Raue. 

" Nightly diarrhoea, with severe colic, caus- 
ing the child to bend double." — G. 

" Hot all over, with thirst."— H. 

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354 CHAMOMILLA. 

"Burning in the vagina, as if excoriated, 

with yellow, smarting leucorrlura." — G. 

"Frequent discharge of coagulated blood, 
with tearing pains in the veins of the lege 
and violent labor-like pains in the uteri] 
— G. 

"Frequent pressing towards the uterus, like 
labor-pains, with frequent desire to urinate: 
passes large quantities of pair urine." — (i. 

"Her pain- are spasmodic and dista 

ran hardly bear them : wants to get away from 
them; is very impatient" — G. 

"Dry, hacking COUgh; one elieek red and 
hot, the other pale ;md OolcL' 1 — ( I. 

k * Ticklillg in the pit of the throat : rau- 
Scraping, dry OOUgh; worse at night, even in 

sleep, especially with children taking cold in 
winter.? — EL 

"With the pains, hot and thirsty.'' — II. 
"Over-sensitive to open air; aversion to wind, 

particularly about the earn' 1 — II. 

11 Face sweats, nfter eating or drinking/ 1 — II. 

M Warm sweat on the head, wetting the hair.'' 

Excessive sensitiveness to pain. 

" Sour-smelling sweat during sleep ; mostly 
on the head/' — 11. 

" Neither lying down, nor sleeping) no'r 
sweating, lessens the pain ; but it is relieved 
after sweat, or on rising/' — H. 



CASTOREUM — CYPRIPEDIUM — AGNUS CASTUS. 355 

'•Puts his feet out of bed; soles burn." — H. 

" Violent rheumatic pains drive him out of 
bed at night, and compel him to walk about." 
— Freedly. 

CASTOREUM. 

Acts on the nerves of motion and the sexual 
organs. 

Its characteristics are unknown; is used in 
nervous, hysterical diseases (even in the form 
of paroxysmal cough, in chronic bronchitis. 

-F.) 

CYPRIPEDIUM. 

Large Yellow Lady's-Stipper. 

Acts on the great sympathetic, and especially 
on the cerebro-spinal nervous system, producing 
marked irritability, or hyperesthesia of the ner- 
vous tissues. 

A valuable remedy in hysteria, and many 
nervous diseases, where there is great hyper- 
esthesia and irritability of the nervous system. 

AGNUS CASTUS. 

Chaste-tree. 

Acts especially on the genito-urinary organs. 
There is no excitation of the sexual instinct, but 
complete prostration and impotence ; semen watery 



356 MEPHITIS PUTORIUS. 

and deficient, with utter absence of erections: pro- 
motes menstruation and the secretion of milk. 

Ch a ra cterist ies. 

Impotence, with complete paralysis of the 
sexual organs. 

" Gleet; yellow, purulent discharge; old sin- 
ners, with sexual inability." — Hempel. 

"Induration of the testicles/' — IIkmpel. 

" Agalactia in young women ; milk much 
diminished." — Hkmpel. 

"Premature old age, which arises in young 
persons from abuse of the sexual powers, 
marked by melancholy, apathy, mental dis- 
traction, Belf-contempt, general debility, fre- 
quent loss of the spermatic fluid.' 1 — Bughes. 

Retention of urine, from paralysis of the 
bladder. 

MEPHITIS PUTORIUS. 
The peculiar t tfu Skv 

Acts on the motor nervoi kern and gei 

tive organs. 

Grand Charatt eristics. 

Adapted to neurotic diseases of an hysterieal 
character. 

In some forms of asthma it has a wonderful 
curative effect. "I have found it very useful 
in the asthma of an intemperate man." — F. 



MEPHITIS PUTORIUS. 357 

Cough worse at night, and causes great dis- 
tress on inhaling. 

Its characteristics are unknown. Dr. Hol- 
combe says he has found it very useful in 
whooping-cough, and in many kinds of spas- 
modic, suffocating coughs. 

Whooping-cough, at night and after lying 
down, with suffocation; convulsions; vomit- 
ing. 

"Fine, nervous vibrations in bones." — Lippe. 

" Rheumatic, wandering pains, with much 
pressure to urinate, and shocks." — Lippe. 

Sensation in the head as if it became en- 
larged. 

Headache, with pain in the eyes, and weak- 
ness of vision. 

The letters become blurred; they run to- 
gether. 

" Wakens from sleep at night, with conges- 
tion of blood to the lower limbs." — Lippe. 

" Chilliness in the evening, with desire to 
urinate, and colic, as if diarrhoea would set 
in." — Lippe. 



358 



GROUP TWELFTn. 



GROUP XII. 



Cilia, 


( lucurbita pepo & 


Santonin 


Teucriom, 


Spigelia, 


Artemii 


Filix mas, 


: physagrl 


Koiisso, 


Terebinth., 


Mercury, 


■ lphiir. 



Tins group represents our main remedies for 
worms in tln> gastro-intestinal canal, and maybe 
termed our anthelmintic orentozoic group. Worms 
mosl frequently occur in debilitated, scrofulous, ca- 
chectic children, in whom the assimilating powers 
arc weak, the gastro-intestinal mucous membrane 
irritable, and in a low state of vital power. The 
partially digested food undergoes some other de- 
composition ; this semi-assimilated matter in the 
digestive tube is the hot-bed for the formation of 
intestinal entozoa. Now, this group of remedies 
acts especially on that part of the ganglionic or 
great sympathetic nervous system that controls 
assimilation and nutrition in the intestinal mu- 
cous membrane and mesenteric glands, so reno- 
vating and improving digestion, that the whole 
gastro-intestinal apparatus is enabled to perform 
its natural functions, and the hot-bed for those 
parasites cannot exist. 

Mercury, Sulphur, and Terebinth, will be found 
in their more appropriate groups. 



cina. 359 

CINA. 

Wormseed. 

Acts especially on the ganglionic nervous sys- 
tem, that controls assimilation and nutrition in 
the gastro-intestinal canal, and, through it, on the 
cerebro-spinal axis, affecting more especially the 
motor nervous system; it also slightly affects the 
eyes and kidneys. 

Grand Characteristics, 

Especially adapted to lumbricoides ; not so 
much to ascarides. 

Constantly picking and boring at the nose. 

u Frequent swallowing, as if to swallow some- 
thing down the throat." — G. 

Scrofulous children are often ravenous for 
food. 

" The urine turns milky after standing a lit- 
tle."— G. 

" Exceedingly unamiable; nothing pleases 
the child."— G. 

" Will not lie awake five minutes without 
prying ; it must be rocked, carried, or dandled 
upon the knee constantly, day and night ; the 
mother and nurses are all worn out taking 
bare of the child."— G. 

Tossing, during sleep. 

" Short, hacking cough." — G. 



: 



360 SPIGELIA. 

Grinding of the teeth, and tossing during 
sleep ; always cross when awake. 

Belly hard and distended. 

Diarrhoea always after drinking. 

Pinching colic in the umbilical region. 

Stools mixed with lumbrici. 

Itching of the anus. 

Spasms of children, resembling epilepsy. 

Santonine, the active principle of Cina, will 
generally be found far more reliable than Tina. 
The characteristics are the same that call for 
Cina. 

Lard, thoroughly applied to the anus, morn- 
ing and night, for two weeks, is said to be a 
certain cure for ascarides. 

SPIGELIA. 

Pink Hoot. 

Acts especially on the sentient nervous system of 
the head, eyes, chest, and abdomen ; irritates the in- 
testinal mucous membrane, causing mucous papes- 
cent stools. The cerebrospinal, or narcotic effi 
are, vertigo, dimness of vision, dilated pupils, spas- 
modic movements of the eyelids and facial muscles, 
and sometimes, general convulsions ; aiiects, espe- 
cially, the sclerotica and the heart. 

Grand Characteristics. 

" Dyspnoea ; can lie only on the right side, 
with trunk raised ; the least motion produces 






FILIX MAS. 361 

great suffocation, with anxiety, and palpita- 
tion of the heart." — G. 

Palpitation of the heart so violent, that the 
walls of the chest are raised. 

"Waving palpitation ; not synchronous with 
the pulse." — Raue. 

" Purring feeling over the heart." — Raue. 

" Trembling carotids." — Raue. 

Rheumatic pericarditis, with violent palpita- 
tion of the heart, and anxiety. 

" Hemicrania ; the pain is increased by mo- 
tion, noise, and especially by stooping ; one or 
both eyes are generally involved in the disor- 
der." — Raue. 

Rheumatic sclerotitis ; pains are sharp and 
tearing ; with pressure on the eyeballs. 

"Nausea every morning before breakfast." 

Adapted to "anaemic and debilitated sub- 
jects;" and to scrofulous children afflicted with 
ascarides and lumbrici. 

"Should be carefully studied in cases of 
chronic rheumatic affections of the eyes." — F. 

FILIX MAS. 

Male Fern. 

Its effects and characteristics are unknown, but 
it is considered almost a specific for tape-worm. 
(Given in large doses of an infusion of the root.) 

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362 KOUSSO — CUCURBITA — TEUCRIUM. 

KOUSSO. 

Brayera Anthelmintics 

This has extraordinary powers for the destruc- 
tion and expulsion of the tape-worm. It appa 

to act exclusively as a poison to the worm. 

CUCURBITA PEPO SEMEN. 

Pumpkin Seed* 

This ads especially as a poison to taenia (tape- 
worm), and for the destruction of this parasite no 
remedy is more reliable. 

TEUCRIUM | Marum Verum). 

( \if-th ;: 

This is a remedy of great value for ascarides, 
where there is great itching of the anus, creeping, 
crawling at the anus. Also for polypus noritm, 
a snuff, with creeping, biting sensation in the vi- 
cinity of the polypus. Ingrowing toe-nails. 

STAPHYSAGRIA. 

Sta\ 

Acts on the cerebrospinal system, gastrointes- 
tinal canal, genito-urinary organs, and skin. 

Grand Characteristics. 

" The teeth are black, or show dark streaks 
running through them." — G. 



STAPHYSAGRIA. 363 

" Teeth turn black, and cannot be kept 
clean ;" gums spongy, and bleed easily. 

u The sound teeth, as well as those decayed, 
are very painful to the touch of food or drink." 
— G. 

" She is very sensitive to the least impres- 
sion ; the least word that seems wrong, hurts 
her very much." — G. 

" A feeling of weakness in the abdomen, as 
if it would drop." — G. 

" Sensation, as if the stomach were hanging 
down relaxed." — G. 

" Extreme hunger, even when the stomach 
is full of food."— G. 

" The more trouble she has with her gums 
and teeth, the more constipated she becomes." 
— G. 

u Much pain in the teeth, at the menstrual 
molimina." — G. 

" Mercurial affections of the teeth and gums; 
caries in the former, suppuration in the latter." 
— F. 

" Pot-bellied children, with much colic, and 
troubled with worms." — Raue. 

" Diarrhoea worse after drinking cold water." 
— G. 

" Bad effects of chagrin." — G. 

" Spermatorrhoea, in which the prostatic por- 
tion of the urethral mucous membrane is the 



364 ARTEMISIA. 

seat of chronic inflammatory irritation, which 
sometimes extends into the ejaculatory canals, 
and seminal ducts." — Hughes. 

" Sensation of a round ball in the forehead, 
sitting firm there, even ay hen shaking the head." 
— H. 

" The least motion makes the heart beat." 
*-H. 

ARTEMISIA. 

Muffwort 

Acts on the cerebrospinal system, and alimen- 
tary canal. L'sed tor epilepsy in wormy children ; 
also for chorea, catalepsy, and somnambulism. 



CHINA. 



365 



GROUP XIII. 



China, 

Quinia, 

Ostrya vir., 

Polypori, 

Eupatorium perf., 

]N~atrum mur., 

Arsenicum, 

Ipecacuanha, 

Gelseminuni, 



Cedron, 
Chanchalagua, 
Capsicum, 
Salix alba, 
Cornus florida, 
Ptelea, 
Kux v., 
Carbo v., 
Sulphur. 



The above group represent our true remedies 
for intermittent fever, and may be styled the anti- 
periodic group. All of them aifect, prominently, 
the ganglionic nervous centres, producing symp- 
toms similar to intermittent fever. They also af- 
fect, more or less, the cerebro-spinal nervous sys- 
tem. Arsenicum, Ipecac, Gelseminuni, Xux v., 
Carbo veg., and Sulphur, have been treated of in 
their more respective groups. 

CHINA. 

Peruvian Bark. 

Affects especially " that portion of the ganglionic 

-tern of nerves which presides over the functions 

I of the vegetative sphere; hence, the semilunar 

ganglion seems to be the chief focus for the action 

of Peruvian bark." The ganglionic nervous sys- 

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366 CHINA. 

tern is so influenced, that there are produced reg- 
ular paroxysms of periodical fever. It also has 
narcotic powers; the cerebral nerves are greatly 
irritated, which leads to congestions of the cere- 
bral vessels, as shown by the roaring, singing, 
buzzing, hissing, 1<>>> of hearing and vision, head- 
ache, fllghtinb88, phantasms, and \ e activity 

of the sensorial functions. It also aff ally 

the spleen and genitourinary md. lastly, 

the liver. 

(ha n (I ( h a racti ri sties. 
The system has been debilitated by the loss 
of vital fluids, especially blood, semen, by di- 
arrhoea, leucorrhoea, or over-lactation. 

Patient is worse every other day. 

u Sensation of great distension of the abdo- 
men, not relieved in the least by eructations 
or dejections." — ( 1. 

" Abdomen feels full and tight as if stuffed ; 
eructations give no relief." — G. 

"Offensive, painless, undigested stools, with 
much distension of the abdomen.'' — G. 

Diarrhoea of yellow, watery, undigested 
stools, with much flatulence, and no pain. 

" After eating fruit, undigested stools, some- 
times involuntary/' — H. 

The liver is swollen, hard, and tender. 

A good deal of colic every afternoon. 

" Bitter taste in the back part of the throat ; 
everything tastes bitter." — G. 



CHINA. 367 

" Craves dainties, but hardly knows what." 

Ravenous appetite. 

" Salivation (years after having taken mer- 
cury) uninterrupted day and night, with great 
weakness, particularly of stomach." — H. 

" Menses too profuse, with sensation of great 
distension of the abdomen." — G. 

" Cessation of labor-pains from loss of blood, 
singing in the ears, and fainting, skin cold and 
blue."— G. 

" Hemorrhage after miscarriage (twins), with 
great loss of blood ; placenta retained." — F. 

" She cannot bear to be touched during labor- 
pains, not even her hands." — G. 

u Leucorrhoea before the menses, with pain- 
ful pressure towards the groins and anus; or 
bloody, fetid leucorrhoea, with contractions in 
the inner parts." — G. 

" Hemorrhages from abuse of chamomilla ; 
discharges clots of dark blood." — G. 

" Heaviness of the head, with loss of sight, 
fainting, and ringing in the ears." — H. 

" Intense throbbing headache, after exces- 
sive hemorrhage." — H. 

" Headache improved by moving the head 
up and down." — H. 

" Convulsions, with rush of blood to the 
• head and chest, with throbbing of the caro- 
tids."— G. 



368 CHINA. 

" She thinks she is very unfortunate, and 
constantly harassed by enemies." — G. 

" Full of plans, projects, and schemes, especi- 
ally in the evening and at night* 91 — II. 

" Sleeplessness al night; he lies awake nearly 
all night, thinking, thinking, restless and un- 
easy, and miserable the next day." — Holcombb, 

Long-lasting, congestive headaches, affecting 

the whole brain, with deafness and noises in 
the ears, of a nervous origin. 

Neuralgia, the pain is excited by merely 

moving the affected parts, and gradually ri 
to a most fearful height. 

"The slightest contact causes darting, tear- 
ing pains." — Halt.. 

"Neuralgia may have disappeared tor the 

moment, hut the touching of the affected parts 

brings on the most horrid and intolerable 

pains." — G. 

Neuralgia of a periodical character in any 
organ of the body, aggravated by contact or 
motion. 

Congestions of any part of the body, with 
well-marked periodicity: worse every other 
day. 

" Weakly persons who have lost much blood, 
with singing in the ears, and fainting spells." 
—II. 



CHINA. 369 

" Weakening night sweats till morning." 
— H. 

" Debility and other complaints, after loss 
of blood and other fluids, particularly by nurs- 
ing or salivation, bleeding, cupping, &c, or the 
whites, night sweats, seminal emissions, &c." 
— H. 

" Very debilitating morning and night 
sweats." — H. 

M Heat over the whole body, with the veins 
greatly enlarged." — Raue. 

Intermittent fever; paroxysms regular or 
irregular; retarding; thirst during the sweat; 
skin cold and blue; great congestion of the 
head; veins greatly enlarged; ringing in the 
ears, w T ith dizziness and enlarged feeling of the 
head ; sweats easily, especially at night ; pain 
in the region of the liver and spleen, on bend- 
ing or coughing; urine gives a voluminous, 
brickdust-like or fatty sediment, or contains 
crystals of urates ; cachectic sallow yellow- 
ness of the skin; anaemia, and great debility, 
anxiety, and palpitation; in miasmatic dis- 
tricts. 

" She often feels as if her garters were too 
tight and loosens them, and as if her waist 
were too tight and she must loosen that." — G. 

" Can only distinguish the outlines of dis- 
tant objects ; when reading, the letters are sur- 



370 OSTRYA VIRGINICA. 

rounded with a white border; sees better after 
sleeping." — Raue. 

"Cough, with a granular expectoration dur- 
ing the day or in the evening; not at night or 
in the morning/' — II. 

"In swarthy persons, thin large stools, un- 
digested or not, usually with passage of wind, 
and sometimes colic, hut always worse in the 
morning; worst sleep after 3 a.m." — 1. C. ML 

Hypertrophy of the spleen from malaria. 

In all affections that China or Quinine is ho- 
moeopathic to. periodicity is one of the greatest 

symptoms. 

I have included the characteristics of the 
Sulphate of Quinine among the Chins charac- 
teristics, it being the active principle of China. 

OSTRYA VIRGINICA. 

Iran W <»i. 

Acts especially on the ganglionic abdominal ner- 
vous centres, and slightly on the cerebrospinal 

system. 

I deeply regret not being able to give the 
characteristics of this, the most valuable of all 
American drugs, for intermittent fever. It is 
the nearest known analogue to the Sulphate of 
Quinine, and to me it is the Quinine of North 
America. In sporadic and endemic intermit- 



POLYPORUS OFFICINALIS. 371 

tents, in my hands, for the last two years, it has 
been a specific. Have never used it in epi- 
demic, malarial intermittents. I will give the 
method I have. adopted to prepare the remedy, 
and urgently call on the profession to develop 
.its therapeutic properties. 

Take a tree, from four to eight inches in 
-diameter, split off the outer, white sap, and 
leave the inner, red wood for use. Now saw 
this red wood into as thin pieces as is possible, 
.so as to reduce as much of the wood to saw- 
dust, as you can. Then take the saw-dust and 
thin slips, put into a boiler of pure, soft water; 
boil it six hours; then strain, and boil it down 
until it becomes the consistence of cream. Now 
place it on plates and dry in the sun until you 
have a dark-red powder. When it is ready 
for trituration and use, I use the second and 
third decimal triturations. 

POLYPORUS OFFICINALIS. 

Larch Agaric. 

Acts upon that portion of the ganglionic nervous 
system that presides over the functions of the liver 
and chylopoietic organs. The solid constituents of 

-the bile are increased, and the fluid portion di- 
minished. The hepatic cells .do not perform their 

; functions, that of eliminating the excrementitious 
substances of the blood, consequently we have jaun- 






372 POLYPORUS OFFICINALIS. 

dice, with all the various symptoms that accom- 
pany it ; with congestion, either acute or chroni 
and, if pressed far enough, it will produce inflam- 
mation of the liver, with enlargement and other 
lesions of that organ ; affects the whole intestinal 
canal and the urinary organs. 

( i ra n (I ( h aracteriat ics. 

The solar plexus and ganglionic nervous 
system are so influenced as to produce regular 
periodical fever; type, quotidian or tertian; 
better in quotidians. 

Sporadic and endemic (not epidemic) dis- 
orders; and in the spring, summer, and winter. 

During the apyrexia the patient is tar from 
being well; lias headache; hitter taste in the 
mouth; tongue coated white or yellow; loss of 
appetite, and more or less pains in the abdom- 
inal viscera, especially the liver. 

Head feels light and hollow, with deep, 
frontal headache and laintness. 

Chill alternates with the fever several times 
a day. 

Not much thirst. 

More or less organic lesions of the liver and 
abdominal viscera, with anaemia and sallow, 
jaundiced condition of the skin. 

Intermissions very short; almost continued 
fever. 



POLYPORUS OFFICINALIS. 373 

Urine thick and high-colored, or red and 
scanty. 

Perfect loss of appetite ; pale and ansemic. 

Loose, papescent stools, without pain. 

Ravenous appetite. 

Lienteria; stools undigested. 

Bowels inclined to be torpid, or loose, papes- 
cent, mucous stools. 

Stools of pure mucus, or mucus and blood, 
and bile, with great faintness and distress in 
the solar plexus, after stool, from portal con- 
gestion. 

Intermittent diarrhoea or dysentery. 

Nausea, and sometimes vomiting, 

Chill, light and short; fever, long, and fol- 
lowed by slight perspiration. 

Great languor, with severe aching pains in 
the large joints and bones of the back and 
legs. 

Great aching distress in all the large joints. 

Hectic chills and fever, in consumptives. 

Sick headache, from organic lesions of the 
liver. 

Periodical headache and facial neuralgia, 

Bilious temperaments. 

The effects of the Polyporus Pinicola are so 
similar, that it is useless to take up more space 
with it. 

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374 EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM. 

EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM. 

Boneset. 

Dr. Dunham says: "Its great action is upon the 
muscular system (or fibrous tissues), producing 
great soreness and aching ; said upon the gastro- 
hepatic system, producing a condition resembli s 
what is known as a bilious state." It affects the 
whole alimentary canal, producing green, bilious 
stools; it also affects the kidneys, skin, and bron- 
chial mucous membrane. 

Grand Characteristics* 

Its great field of action is in bilious inter- 
mit tents, with the following characteristics: 
" Intolerable aching in the back and I 

as if the bones were broken. " — (i. 

Severe, aching distress, and soreness of the 
limbs. 

u Painful soreness of both wrists, as if broken 
or dislocated." — G. 

" Calves of the legs feel as though they had 
been beaten; soreness and swelling of the feet." 
— Dr. Dunham. 

"These pains make the patient very restl* 
chill comes on in the morning; thirst several 
hours before the chill, which continues during 
the chill and heat." — Hale. 

"Vomiting at the conclusion of the chill." 

" Profuse perspiration." — F. 



EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM. 875 

"Little or no sweat at any time during the 
disease." — Hale — Dr. Gray. 

"Great deal of shivering and trembling 
during the chill." — Dr. Gray. 

" Heavy chill early in the morning of one 
day, and a light chill about noon the next 
day." — Dr. Gray. 

" Vomiting of whatever is taken into the 
stomach, and of bile." — Dr. Gray. 

" Vomiting of a green liquid ; several quarts 
at a time ; with frequent, green, watery stools, 
cramps, and terrible thirst." — Dr. Gray. 

"Vomiting of bile, with great tenderness in 
the epigastrium, and trembling." 

Nausea ; frequent efforts to vomit ; extreme 
tenderness in the epigastrium, with fulness 
and tenderness in the hepatic region, from 
portal congestion. 

Paroxysm terminates with vomiting. 

Tongue coated thickly, yellow. 

"Urine scanty; dark mahogany color." — 
Hale. 

" Violent headache during the paroxysm." 

Head very sore and painful, as if bruised. 

"Soreness of the eyeballs." — Dr. Dunham. 

"Great weakness and faintness during the 
fever." — Douglas. 

"Dyspnoea very great, obliging the patient 



376 NATRUM MURIATICUM. 

to lie with his head and shoulders very high." 
— Neidhard. 

"Influenza: great pain in the back and 
limbs; lassitude ; skin bathed in perspiration ; 
is pale and morbidly sensitive, and the excre- 
tion of a passive kind." — Raue. 

Coldness during nocturnal perspiration. 

NATRUM MURIATICUM. 

Salt act* ;;il!v an the blood, lymphatic 

sels, and glandular system* I to the blood, it causes 
a dyscrasia, resembling very closely a scorbutic dis- 
organization, with disposition to angry eruptions, 
ulcers, and inflammations. On the Lymphatic b; 
tern, it deteriorates its fluid, leading to disintegra- 
tion of the tissues. It increases the secretions of 
the glandular system. "Salt, which is a normal 
constituent of the animal body, especially of the 
blood, by which circumstance it is made evident 
that this agent is necessary to the animal body, 
a local excitant, causing a very considerable degree 
of local irritation ; a moderate quantity of it taken 
internally, excites the mucous membranes and mus- 
cular fibres of the prima* viae, promotes their secre- 
tions, the peristaltic motions of the intestines, and 
the digestion ; in a large dose, it causes burning 
and pain in the fauces and stomach, thirst, dryw 
and redness of the mucous lining, desire to vomit ; 
in still larger doses, it causes vomiting and diar- 



NATRUM MURIATICUM. 877 

rhcea, which may terminate in fatal inflammation 
of the mucous membrane of the stomach and in- 
testines." It also produces vascular enlargement 
of the spleen ; lastly, it affects the genito-urinary 
organs, and the skin. 

Grand Characteristics. 

In inveterate, badly treated, or recent cases 
of intermittent fever. 

" There soon appears an eruption of hydroa, 
or fever blisters, which cover, like pearls, the 
upper and lower lip." — Raue. 

"Lips dry, cracked; upper lip swollen; 
breaks out around the mouth." — H. 

" Hard chill about 11 a.m., with great thirst, 
which continues through all stages ; the heat 
is characterized by the most violent head- 
ache." — Raue. 

" White-coated tongue, or map tongue." — 
— Raue. 

Sallow complexion. 

Pressure and distension of the stomach. 

"Scorbutic, putrid inflammation of the gums; 
bloody saliva, and difficulty of talking, as if the 
organs of speech w r ere weak." — Raue. 

"Great complaints about the dryness of the 
tongue, which is not very dry." — L. 

" Losing of flesh while living well." — H. 

" When the throat and neck of children ema- 

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378 NATRUM MURIATICUM. 

ciate rapidly, particularly during summer com- 
plaint."— H. 

" Great aversion to bread, of which she was 
once very fond." — H. 

Bread is disgusting to the patient. 

" Feeling of great hunger, as if the stomach 
was empty, but do appetite." — G. 

" Very much nausea, particularly in femal 
using much salt food/ 1 — G. 

"She always has heartburn after eating." 
— G. 

" Great longing for salt." — (1. 

"Excoriating diarrhoea like water, only in 
the day time. v — ( •. 

"Constipation, with sensation of contraction 
of the anus." — (i. 

"Difficult expulsion of stool. Assuring the 
anus, with flow of Mood. Leavic nsation of 

much soreness in the anus." — (1. 

"Ripping up sensation in the anus alter 
stool.'— G. 

" Severe cutting pains in the urethra after 
micturition." — G. 

" This remedy is indicated in females, whose 
menses delay and decrease more and more, and 
every morning they awaken with a violent 
headache." — G. 

u Very sad and gloomy during the men- 



NATRUM MURIATICUM. 379 

with much palpitation of the heart, and morn- 
ing headache." — G. 

" Terrible sadness during the menses." — G. 

u At the menstrual nisus, sweet risings from 
the stomach, and spitting of bloody saliva." — G. 

" Pressing and pushing toward the genital 
organs every morning; she has to sit down to 
prevent prolapsus uteri." — G. 

" Greenish leucorrhcea, particularly when 
walking in the morning." — G. 

" Uterine cramps, with burning and cutting 
in the groins." — G. 

" Very sad during labor; pains feeble." — G. 

" Chlorosis, chronic cases; cachectic individ- 
uals, with dead dirty skin ; frequent palpita- 
tion and fluttering of the heart; oppression and 
anxiety in the chest." — G. 

" Dryness of the vagina, which is painful 
during an embrace." — G. 

" Much itching of the vulva, with pimples 
on the mons veneris." — G. 

" Falling off of the hair from the mons ven- 
eris and labia majora." — G. 

" Dreams at night of robbers being in the 
room, so vividly, that she will not be satisfied 
till the house has been searched." — G. 

" Somnambulistic rising, and sitting about 
the room." — G. 

" Headache, as if bursting.; beating, or 



380 . CEDRON. 

stitches through to the neck and chest, with 
heat in head, red face, nausea and vomit: 
before, during, and after catamenia, or during 
the fever stage, decreasing gradually after the 
sweat." — B. 

Awakens every morning with a violent. 
bunting headache. 

"Great inclination to weep, with great de- 
bility and great thirst." — I 

"Thin, watery, excoriating discharge! from 

the eves, after the abuse of Nitrate of Silver." 

— G. 

"Excessively sore* red, disgusting eyelids." 

— Kaue. 

''Alter great bodily exertion, an itching, 
nettle-rash appears." — II. 

k - Hangnails; skin around the nails dry and 
cracked." — H. 

u Painful contractions of the hamstring 
— H. 

"After all kinds of cauterizations with Ni- 
trate of Silver." — II. 

CEDRON. 

Acts especially on the cerebro-spinal system, and 
the kidneys ; slightly on the bowels. 

Grand Characteristics. 

Is considered a specific for the bites of the 
venomous serpents of South America. 



CHANCHALAGUA. 381 

Intermittent fevers, in low, marshy regions; 
in warm seasons, the paroxysms are accom- 
panied by violent cerebral symptoms. 

The paroxysms are quotidian, or tertian, in 
the afternoons or evenings. 

The chills and shivering generally very 
strong, with cramps, and tearing pains in the 
upper and lower extremities. 

" Palpitation of the heart, and hurried res- 
piration, with severe headache." — Marcy and 
Hunt. 

Dry heat, followed by profuse perspiration. 

"Numb, dead feeling in the legs; they feel 
enlarged." — Marcy and Hunt. 
* "Entire body feels numb." — Marcy and 
Hunt. 

" Profuse secretion of urine." — Marcy and 
Hunt. 

" Urine throws down a bran-like sediment." 
" Urine very high-colored." — Marcy and 
• Hunt. 

" Great deal of pain in the kidneys." — Marcy 
and Hunt. 

CHANCHALAGUA. 

Chironia Chilensis. 

I know nothing specific about this remedy, but 
it is claimed to be a most valuable remedy in ague. 



382 CAPStcun axxuum. 

CAPSICUM ANNTJTJM. 
Cay nm I ' 

Acts on flic mucous membrane of the alimen- 
tary canal, especially the throat ; also on the genito- 
urinary organs, and ganglionic nerv< em. 

Grand ChanMCteHsti**, 

Burning and smarting, as though Cayenne 
pepper were sprinkled on the par 

Throat smarts as if from Cayenne pepper, 
with sensation of constriction on swallowrnj 

w * It lias bng been regarded as an efficient 
remedy in cynanche maligna and scarlatina 
anginosa." — Makct and Hunt. 

% - It promotes the separations of the slough*, 
and improves the constitutional symptoms/' 

u Equally efficacious in removing false mem- 
brane from tonsils, in torpid forms of diphthe- 
ria."— F. 

" Its extraordinary power to control the ca- 
pillary circulation, to bring excess of blood, 
and thence to scatter more than it has brought, 
enables it to remove congestions, to reduce 
swellings, as promptly and effectually as Bel- 
ladonna." — Marcy and Hunt. 

Excessive burning and soreness in the 
mouth and throat, with much congestion of 
the mucous membrane. 

" Diarrhoea, with severe burning in the 



SALIX ALBA — CORNUS FLORIDA. 383 

lower part of the rectum, continued after 
stool."— G. 

Intense burning along the urethral canal. 

" Intermittent fever, in flabby, mucous con- 
stitutions; chill predominant; thirst in the 
chill, or during the chill and heat ; much pain 
in the back and limbs ; slimy, burning stools." 
— Marcy and Hctnt. 

Chilliness in the back. — G. 

" Much flatulent distension of the abdo- 
men."— G. 

" Coldness of the scrotum, with impotence ; 
atrophy of the testes, and shrivelled sper- 
matic cord." — Hempel. 

SALIX ALBA. 
White Willow. 
Affects the ganglionic nervous system, similar 
to intermittent fever, and is a very efficient remedy 
in this disease. Its characteristics are unknown. 

CORNUS FLORIDA. 

Dogwood. 
Acts especially on the gastro-intestinal canal, 
producing nausea, vomiting, violent pain in the 
bowels, purging and general derangement of the 
digestive organs. Through the ganglionic system 
it causes chills, fever, colliquative sweats ; depres- 
sion of the vital forces and loss of tonicity of the 
heart, and of the muscular fibre in general. 



384 PTELEA TRIFOLIATA. 

Grand Characteristic** 

Its main sphere of usefulness is in intermit- 
tent and bilious fevers. 

" Paroxysms preceded for clays by sleepiness, 
dull heavy headache, and sluggish flow of 
ideas." 

" Chill, with cold clammy skin." — Hale. 

"Fever, with hot, moist skin, cerebral ful- 
ness, stupor, and violent, dull headache/ 9 — 
Hale. 

"Nausea, vomiting, bilious watery <liarrh< 
and violent pains in the bowels." — Hale. 

"General debility from loss of fluids and 
night sweats.'' — Hale. 

"Indigestion, with distressing heartburn. n 
— Hale. 

Its action is very similar to that of China. 

PTELEA TRIFOLIATA. 

Wafer Ash. 

My friend, Prof. E. M. Hale, of Chicago, writes 
me the following, in regard to the action of Ptelea. 
I give his letter in full. 

Chicago, November 14, 1868. 

My dear Doctor Burt : 

It is quite impossible for me to give you the in- 
formation you want relative to Ptelea. 

I think, however, it acts mainly on the skin and 



PTELEA TRIFOLIATA. 385 

mucous membranes, and that a majority of its symp- 
toms arise from that source. 

It causes scaly eruptions, ptyriasis versicolor. 

It causes the worst form of dyspepsia, with al- 
ternating canine hunger, and disgust for food. 

Some of the provers think it causes profound de- 
pression of spirits, others great exhilaration of spirits. 

The monograph will be published soon in the 
" Massachusetts State Transactions." 

I think it will prove a valued polychrest, but 
needs confirmation. 

Yours, truly, 

E. M. Hale. 

It has decided anti-periodic properties. — B. 

(The full proving of Ptelea may be found in the 
Transactions of the American Horn. Institute for 
1868.) 



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386 



SECALE CORNUTUM. 



GROUP XIV. 



Secale cornutum, 
XTstilago Hindis, 
Pulsatilla, 
Sepia, 

Sal)in;i. 

Hamamelis, 

Trillium, 
( 'yrlamrii. 

Crocus, 

Thla>pi, 



io aurcns, 
Cinnamonum, 
Millefolium, 
Caulophyllnm, 
Tanaoetum, 

Gossyjiiuin, 

Belladonna, 

( 'imicifu 
Platiua, 
Horax, 
• urea. 



This group especially affects the female organs 
of generation: the ovaries and their appendages 

(Fallopian tubes, uterus, vagina, ami mammas), and 
may be called the female group. 



SECALE CORNUTUM. 

Spurred Rye. 

The toxical action of Secale is directed against 
both the blood and the nervous system. " Whether 
the toxication of the blood is prior to the violent 
irritation of the nervous system, or whether the 
disorganizing action of the poison reaches the 
blood from the nervoiffe centres, seems, to some 
extent, immaterial in a therapeutic point of view." 
Acts most powerfully on the cerebro-spinal and 
ganglionic nervous system. 



SECALE CORNUTUM. 387 

^ibmer says: "At first the patients only com- 
plain of languor, and of formication in the tips of 
the toes and lingers, which sometimes look black- 
ish-blue in some places. Frequently it commences 
with nausea, violent vomiting, and pains in the 
stomach ; the abdomen becomes distended and 
hard ; the head feels heavy, dizzy ; the senses be- 
come blunted. At a later period the patients are 
attacked with violent convulsions of the hands, 
feet, knees, shoulders, elbows, mouth, lips, and 
tongue. These shift from one side of the body to 
the other, and are generally accompanied by in- 
tolerable pains ; at times by a burning heat, and 
at other times by chilliness ; sometimes they abate 
periodically, and then return again ; sometimes the 
spasms assume the form of emprosthotonos ; at 
other times, that of opisthotonos. These convul- 
sions most frequently terminate in epilepsy. They 
are very destructive to children. • Between the 
paroxysms the patients lie in an uninterrupted so- 
por; after the paroxysms, most of them manifest 
a craving for food, without being able to satisfy 
themselves. They are exceedingly feeble and lan- 
guid ; complain of dizziness and hardness of hear- 
ing ; their limbs are rigid and motionless. Some- 
times thev are attacked with violent diarrhoea ; the 
tongue swells very much ; the secretion of saliva is 
increased ; the eyes frequently become covered with 
a thick mist, so that the patients become blind, or 
see double. Their mental faculties are disturbed; 
melancholy, madness, intoxication, set in; the ver- 
tigo increases ; the pains now cease; sensibility is 
extinguished. The hands and feet are sometimes 



388 SECALE CORNUTUM. 

covered with spots resembling flea-bites; they dry- 
up, as it were; the skin turns black, wrinkl 
whole extremities sometimes become gangrened 

and fall off. In this way the patients sometimes 
cape death, dragging their mutilated bodies about 
for months and even years afterwards. Many, how- 
ever, die within nine or twelve weeks. A number 
had relapses after the lapse of a year; most fre- 
cpiently in the months of January or February." 

"It was observed, in various epidemics, that the 
convulsions and pain in the limbs, with stupor, 
would prevail; and, in Other epidemics, gangrene 
of the extremities; hence tbe distinction between 

convulsive and gangrenous ergotism." 

It will be seen by this, that Secale vitiates the 
reproductive process, in its very beginning, and 
poisons the very fountains of lite, and is adapted 
to deep-seated, inveterate affections of the repro- 
ductive sphere. 

The most remarkable feature of the physio- 
pathological action of Secale, is upon the female 
sexual system. 

Wibmer says of it: "Xumerous experiments 
show that it excites the uterus to contract, and 
that, in ten to fifteen minutes after its exhibition, 
it causes the uterus to contract, and expels the 
foetus and placenta, without injury either to the 
uterus or the foetus, unless the drug is given in too 
large a dose, or at an improper period, [t is speci- 
ally during labor that it manifests this power of 
exciting uterine contractions. The continued use 
of this drug may, likewise, cause miscarriage. In 
animals that were killed by Secale, the uterus and 



SECALE CORNUTUM. 389 

its ligaments were found inflamed, and an effusion 
of blood had taken place in the uterus, as well as in 
the vagina; the foetus was destroyed by asphyxia, 
in consequence of the excessive contractions." 

"Diet found, in his experiments upon animals, 
blood was discharged from the uterus, even when 
unimpregnated." 

Also, has a powerful action on the bloodvessels 
of the spinal cord ; diminishing the amount of blood 
in the spinal cord, and its membranes. 

Brown-Sequard says: "The two remedies most 
powerful in diminishing congestion of the spinal 
cord, are Belladonna and Secale." 

" These two remedies are powerful excitants of 
unstriped muscular fibres in the bloodvessels, in 
the uterus, in the bowels, and in the iris." 

Or and Characteristics. 

" This remedy is often indicated in thin, 
scrawny women, and in those who are afflicted 
with melancholy, anguish, dread of death; with 
constant sensation of pressure and bearing-down 
sensation in the uterus." — G. 

" The patient is of a passive character; of 
thin, scrawny, cachectic appearance, and sub- 
ject to passive hemorrhages." — G. 

"Passive hemorrhages; in feeble, cachectic 
people, the corpuscles are dissolved, particu- 
| larly when the weakness is not caused by pre- 
1 vious loss of fluids." — G. 

" Passive hemorrhages; everything seems 

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390 SECALE CORNUTUM. 

open and loose; no action in thin, scrawny, 
cachectic women." — G. 

" Copious flow of black, liquid blood; worse 
from the slightest motion, with convulsive 
movements in abortion." — G. 

"Strong tendency to putrescence; discharge 
of black blood; a kind of sanies, with tingling 
in the limbs, and great debility." — G. 

" Hemorrhage, with spasmodic contractions; 
every discharge of blood is preceded by a vio- 
lent, painful contraction of the uterus, or by 
distressing bearing-down pains." — G. 

"Labor; the pain is much prolonged, as if 
pressing and forcing the uterus, especially in 
thin, scrawny, cachectic women." — (i. 

"She has a constant sensation of bearing 
down in the abdomen ; it seems to her too con- 
stant and too strong to be effectual. v — G. 

"Labor-pains are weak, suppressed, or dis- 
tressing; in weak cachectic women, use the 
200th dilution." 

Puerperal convulsions in scrawny, illy-nour- 
ished women, with too feeble labor-pains. 

" Lochia very offensive and thin ; discharge 
scanty or profuse ; may be painless, or accom- 
panied by prolonged bearing-down pains in 
thin, scrawny women/' — G. 

" The inflammation seems to be caused by 
suppression of the lochia or menses." — G. 



SECALE CORNUTUM. 391 

Metritis, great prostration, extremities cold, 
frequent vomiting; the blood discharged from 
the uterus is fluid, mingled with dark, badly- 
smelling coagula. 

" Failure of lactation in thin, cachectic, 
scrawny females ; the breasts do not properly 
fill with milk ; there is much stinging in them ; 
she has been much exhausted with venous 
hemorrhage." — G. 

"All her symptoms are worse just before 
the menses." — G. 

c * Menses too frequent, too profuse, last too 
long, w T ith prolonged bearing-down pain ; cut- 
ting colic ; cold extremities ; cold perspiration ; 
great weakness, small pulse, and sometimes 
violent spasms." — G. 

" Suppression of the menses in thin, scrawny 
married women, who suffer much at the men- 
strual nisus, with continual, long-lasting, forc- 
ing pain in the uterus." — G. 

Leucorrhcea, jelly-like, alternating with me- 
trorrhagia, in thin, scrawny women, with pro- 
lapsus uteri and excessive menstruation. 

Moles, polypi, and morbid growths in the 
uterus, with prolonged forcing pains. 

u Putrid, fetid, and colliquative diarrhoea/' 

" Painful diarrhoea, with great prostration." 
— G. 

" Excessive, offensive perspiration." — F. 



392 SECALE CORNUTTM. 

"Involuntary diarrhoea." — F. 

"Cholera infantum, great debility, vomiting 
and diarrhoea; much thirst; paleface; sunken 
eyes; dry heat ; quick pulse; restless md 

sleeplessness.' 1 — ( i . 

"Very thin, scrawny children, with shriv- 
elled skin, especially when there are spasmod 
twitchingS, sudden cries, and le\ erishness/' — 
G. 

"Twitching of single muscles; twistinj 

the head to and fro; contortion of the hands 

and feet, labored and anxious respirations." — 
G. 

"Cholera, cramps, and cold, clammy per- 
spiration; coldness in the back, abdomen, and 
limbs, with tingling in the limbs; cold, dry, 
livid tongue; serous vomiting; suppression of 

urine; vertigo and desire to sleep/' — ll.wv. 

" Hsematemesifl ; patient lies still, with great 
weakness, but no pain; lace, lips, tongue, and 
hands deadly pale, covered with a cold sweat : 
pulse frequent and thread-like." — Rate. 

"Partial paralysis of the ciliary muscle, 
which renders it difficult or impossible to read 
or see any length of time." — Hughes. 

" Quiet delirium, or grows wild with great 
anxiety, and a constant desire to get out of 
bed.'— G. 

" Ansesthesia of the limbs ; paralysis of the 



USTILAGO MADIS. 393 

limbs, with convulsive jerks and shocks in the 
paralyzed limb." — Hempel. 

" Violent pain in the sacral region ; cannot 
bear the heat of the stove." — Raue. 

" The limbs become pale, cold, and shriv- 
elled, or cold and lead-colored, losing all sen- 
sibility." — Raue. 

" Skin dry and brittle, not emitting a drop 
of blood when cut." — Hempel. 

M Large ecchymosis ; blood blisters on the 
extremities ; becoming gangrenous ; black sup- 
purating blisters." — Hempel. 

" Dry gangrene of the extremities, the parts 
are dry, cold, hard, and insensible, of a uni- 
form black color, and free from fetor." — 
Hempel. 

" Worse from warmth." — F. 

" The ulcer feels as though it had been 
burnt ; discharges a putrid bloody fluid, and 
is sometimes decidedly gangrenous and pain- 
less ; in thin, scrawny, cachectic people." — G. 

14 Desire to be uncovered, even in cholera, 
with cold perspiration ; worse from warmth." 
— F. 

USTILAGO MADIS.* 

Smut-Corn. 

Acts especially on the skin and generative or- 
gans. On the skin, it produces an eruption similar 
to rubeola ; rubbing any part of the body a few 

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394 USTILAGO MADI>. 

moments, it would break out with this fine red 
eruption; on the face it came in patches like ring- 
worm (Herpes cin-inatus), lnit not vesicular. The 
eruption is about the size of a pin's head, itches 
violently at night, and constantly remains red and 
hard. The chest and joints arc more affected than 
other parts of the body. The whole scalp becomes 
one filthy mass of inflammation, two-thirds of the 
hair came out, and what was left in. was mostly 
matted together. A watery scrum kept constantly 
oozing from the scalp, so great as to keep the hair 
constantly wet. 
k * Shedding of the hair, both of man and h 

and sometimes even of the teeth." — RoULDf. 

Mules fed on it lose their hoofe."- EtouLnr. 
( ha the genital organs of man, it produces sexual 
dreams every night, without emissions; great de- 
pression of the sexual system for weeks, with great 
relaxation of the scrotum ; constant aching pains 
in the testicles tor davs; Bevere, sharp, neuralgic 

pains in the testicles, more in the right ;mt 

aching pains in the right testicle for days; spells 

of violent pains in the testicles, more in the right; 
every five minutes sharp pains in the testicles that 
produced faintness ; two nights had a profuse cold 

sweat upon the scrotum, which was greatly re- 
laxed. 

On the generative organs of woman, it h; 
most powerful effect, but its true action has yet to 
be defined. I think the difference between the 
action of Ustilago and Secale on the uterus and 
tissues generally, is this : Secale acts on the striated 



USTILAGO MADIS. 395 

or striped muscular fibres, which minister as a 
general rule to the animal functions. While Usti- 
lago acts more on the smooth or unstriped muscu- 
lar fibres and lymphatic glandular system, which 
preside over organic life ; it also especially affects 

ithe ovaries. It causes in the uterus constant ach- 

r ing distress, referred by the patient to the mouth 
of the womb. 

" In a cow-house, where cows were fed on In- 
dian corn infested with this parasite (Ustilago), 
eleven of their number aborted in eight days ; 
after their food was changed, none of the animals 
aborted." — Anl. (Med. Vetr. Beige and Rep. de 
Ph.). 

" Six drachms to two bitch dogs with young 
soon caused them to abort." 

"Fowls fed on this fungus lay eggs without 
shells." — Roulin. 

i Also affects the urinary organs, and slightly the 
digestive organs. 

Lastly, the lymphatic, glandular system, and 

I skin are especially affected. 

Grand Characteristics. 

I regret that I am unable to give its charac- 
teristics, but will give a few of what I think 
are characteristics. 

Acts better on tall, slim, very fair com- 
, plexions, and what might be called consump- 
tive persons ; also very lymphatic women, 
with clear, white skin. 

I ■ 



396 USTILAGO MADIS. 

Menstruation too frequent, too profuse, and 
lasts too long. 

Suppressio-mensium from ovarian irritation, 
with much pain in the ovarian region, and 
flatulence and soreness of the bowels. 

Vicarious menstruation from the lungs and 
bowels. 

Scanty menstruation from ovarian irrita- 
tion. 

Menorrhagia at the climacteric period, with 
much pain on the top and side of the head ; 
with burning distress in right ovary; gone- 
ness in the epigastrium; the flooding lasts for 
weeks; blood dark-colored, with many clol 

and vertigo. 

Active and constant flooding, with frequent 
clots of bright red blood, with bearing-down 
pains. 

Passive hemorrhage; blood dark-colored, 
lasting many days, with anaemia, and dull, 
heavy headache. 

Abortion, with bearing-down pains, as it' 
everything would come from her. 

Deficient labor-pains, where the os is soft, 
pliable, and dilatable. 

Dysmenorrhoea of a congestive character, 
with much ovarian irritation ; severe pain in 
the ovaries, uterus, and back, every few min- 
utes. 



PULSATILLA. 397 

Spasmodic pains in the left ovary, which is 
very sore and tender. 

Ovaritis; constant pain in the ovary, with 
sharp pains passing down the leg with great ra- 
pidity; ovary much swollen, and very tender. 

Intermittent neuralgia of the left ovary, 
which is large as a hen's egg, and very tender 
i to the touch. 

Between the menses, constant misery under 
j left breast at the margin of the ribs. 

Hypertrophy of the uterus. 

Vertigo at the climacteric period, with too 
frequent and too profuse menstruation. 

Nervous headache from menstrual irregu- 
larities. 

Neuralgia of the testicles, and spermator- 
rhoea. 

Urticaria, with intolerable itching at night. 

Copper-colored spots on the skin. 

Pustular ulceration of the skin. 

(For all that is known about the Ustilago 
madis, vide my Monograph, printed by Dr. 
E. A. Lodge, Detroit, Michigan ; and Hahne- 
» mann's Monthly, Ap. 1869.) 

PULSATILLA. 

Wind Mower. 

Acts especially on the vegetative or ganglionic 
nerves that govern nutrition, depressing and irri- 

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398 PULSATILLA. 

tating their action, so as to produce a statu similar 
to chlorosis, of a nervous character. 

It especially affects the mucous lining of the 
sexual organs, the eyes, cars, gastrointestinal 
canal, urinary organs, and skin. Causes a sub- 
acute catarrhal inflammation, with profuse mu- 
cous discharges, rarely going on to ulceration. If 
these discharge- are Buddeuly arrested, the serous 
and fibrous tissues take on an active inflammation. 
Its effects are erratic in character ; a blennorrhea 

of one mucous surface may change to another : 
for instance, a leucorrlnca may change to a bron- 
chitis or conjunctivitis. On the skin it produ 

an urticarious and vesicular eruption; also fetid 

sweat. 
On the motor nerves, il causes a sta rethism, 

twitching, tremors, and the motion of the body is 

perverted. 

On tfu nerves of sensation, il causes frequenl chil- 
liness, especially in the afternoon; hyperasthee 
neuralgia, especially of the uterine and abdominal 
plexuses. 

It also strongly affects the fibrous ti»ues. 

On the venous , it causes a state similar 

to varicosis. 

On the glandular system, it affects the b 
ovaries, mammas, and tonsils. 

Synovial membranes it affects, especially the 
small joints, the knee, hands, and feet, produci 
a rheuniatico-gouty inflammation. 

Grand Characteristics. 

Especially adapted to females with blue 



PULSATILLA. 399 

eyes, very affectionate, easily excited to tears, 
and of a very yielding disposition. 

" Very tearful ; she weeps at everything, 
whether it is joyful or sorrowful." — G. 

" She is timid and fearful, and yet ex- 
tremely mild, gentle, and yielding ; sometimes 
silent and melancholy, with bad taste in the 
mouth in the morning; nothing tastes good." 
— G. 

" She w r eeps very easily about this or that; 
can hardly give her symptoms without weep- 
ing."— G. 

" Craves fresh, cool air;" much worse in a 
close, warm room. — G. 

" All her symptoms are worse towards even- 
ing; relieved in the open air, and worse on re- 
turning to a warm, close room." — G. 

" The forms of her symptoms are very 
changeable; she is very well one hour, and 
very miserable the next." — G. 

" Better from cold things ; worse from 
warm." — G. 

" She cannot sleep in the early part of the 
night, but sleeps late in the morning." 

" Chilliness, even in the summer, when 
warmly clad, with vertigo, throbbing head- 
ache ; pressure in the stomach ; pain in the 
uterus, and dysuria, caused by nervous debility 
or from wet feet." — G. 



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400 PULSATILLA. 

"Semilateral headache, with bad taste in 
the mouth in the morning, without thirst, 
with nightly diarrhoea and scanty urination." 
— G. 

"The blood is very changeable in its appear- 
ance; more apt to flow during walking in the 
daytime, and intermittent." — G. 

"Catamenia too Late and scanty, or sup- 
pressed, particularly by getting feet wet.* 
—II. 

* % Menstrual colic, with great restlec 

ring in every possible direction.'' — II. 
i% Menses supproscd, or How intermittently, 
with evening chilliness." — G. 

"Metrorrhagia, profuse at times, at other 

times intermittent, and mixed with clots; most 
profuse in persons given to reveries; in mild, 
tearful females." — G. 

" Scanty, slimy menses, appear too late." — G. 

Delayed menstruation, with much chilliness, 
and bad taste in the morning. 

"Dysmenorrhea, with pains so violent that 
she tosses in every direction, with cries and 
tears ; the blooJ is thick and dark, or pale and 
watery, flows by fits and starts, and worse in a 
close, warm room." — G. 

Amenorrhea, in tearful, yielding disposi- 
tions; pale face; difficulty in breathing; much 
pain in the small of the back ; much chilliness 



PULSATILLA. 401 

in the afternoon, and very bad taste in the 
mouth in the morning. 

" Burning leucorrhoea, thin and acrid." — G. 

u Milky leucorrhoea, with swelling of the 
vulva, particularly after the menses." — G. 

" Leucorrhoea of thick, white mucus, espe- 
cially when lying, or before and during the 
menses, with cutting in the abdomen." — G. 

u Labor, the pains excite palpitations ; suffo- 
cating and fainting spells, unless the doors and 
windows are open ; she feels as though she 
must have them open." — G. 

u Labor-pains alternating with hemorrhage 
and restlessness." — G. 

" The breasts are much swollen, and rheu- 
matic pains extend to the muscles of the chest, 
shoulders, neck, axillae, and down the arms; 
she is fearful, tearful, but not thirsty." — G. 

" She weeps at every nursing ; the pain from 
nursing often extends into the chest, up into 
the neck, down the back, or changes- from 
place to place." — G. 

u Tension and contraction in the abdomen, 
as if the menses would come on, with nausea, 
and sometimes vomiting of mucus." — Raue. 

u Labor-pains grow worse towards evening, 
in mild, tearful temperaments ; no thirst." — G. 

; * Mild, tearful women, who have but little 
milk."— G. 

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402 PULSATILLA. 

u She can hardly find an easy position 
through the night, owing to the pain in the 
pelvic articulations." — G. 

u Flying rheumatic pains, with much chil- 
liness, especially after getting the feet wet.* 
— H. 

"Very Bluggish circulation, manifested by 
constant chilliness, coldness and paleness of 
the skin." — Raue. 

" Dizzy when rising from a chair, with chilli- 
ness/— G. 

" Drawing, rheumatic pains, frequently shift- 
ing from one part of the body to another; con- 
stant chilliness ; worse nights." — G. 

" Retention of urine, with redness, heat, and 

soreness of the vesical region externally." — 
Raue. 

" Involuntary emissions of urine, when sit- 
ting, coughing, or walking." — Jaiik. 

" After urinating, spasmodic pain in the neck 
of tli£ bladder, extending to the pelvis and 
thighs."— G. 

" Frequent and almost ineffectual urging to 
urinate, with cutting pain." — G. 

" Constant pressure on the bladder, without 
desire to urinate; desire to urinate, with draw- 
ing in the abdomen." — G. 

Scanty urine and no thirst. 

Orchitis, the testicles and spermatic cord 



PULSATILLA. 403 

swollen and painful ; caused from cold or sup- 
pressed gonorrhoea. 

Thickly coated white or yellow tongue, with 
bad taste in the morning. 

" Morning sickness, vomiting of mucus ; pul- 
sations in the pit of the stomach ; bad taste in 
the mouth every morning on awaking; she has 
to wash it out soon, it is so bad she cannot 
bear it; nothing tastes good to her; absence 
of thirst, and nightly diarrhoea." — G. 

" She always has a very bad taste in the 
mouth early in the morning." — G. 

"Disordered stomach; nausea; vomiting; 
repugnance to food ; colicky pains in the abdo- 
men, and dizziness from looking up." — G. 

Cholera morbus caused by fat, rich food, 
with violent pains in the bowels ; worse in the 
evening and night; drawing, cutting pains 
around the navel. 

" Sour, bitter vomiting after fat, rich food." 
— G. 

" Gastric disturbance from rich, fat food ; 
she cannot sit long at a time, must walk about 
to relieve her pain." — G. 

" Loathing, nausea, and retchings after greasy 
food, with sour eructations." — G. 

" Pressure in the abdomen and small of the 
back, as from a stone, with disposition of the 
lower limbs to go to sleep when sitting, and 



404 PULSATILLA. 

attended with ineffectual desire for stool." — 
Raue. 

"Obstinate constipation, in mild, gentle, 
tearful females, with very nauseous bad taste in 
the mouth in the morning, so very bad she has 
to wash her mouth out immediately on awak- 
ing."-G. 

" Discharge of blood and mucus during 
stool; pallid countenance, and disposition to 
faint, with bad taste iii the morning." — G. 

" Watery diarrhoea, usually at nighty with 

very bad taste in tbe morning. 91 — <i. 

"Dysentery: stools mucus and blood; mucb 
chilliness towards evening; bad taste in the 
mouth in tbe morning; bruised feeling in the 
abdomen/ 1 — (i. 

Nausea, vomiting; thick yellow coating on 
tbe tongue, caused from cold, or rich, fat food. 

" Stools of mUCUfl streaked with blood ; worst 

in the evening, and through the night, with- 
out thirst,"— -GK 

"Diarrhoea always worse at night; no two 
stools alike, they are so changeable; for a time 
the child seems much better; then it gets worse 
again without any appreciable cause; always 
seems better in the open air.* — G. 

u Greenish, mucous diarrhoea at night." — G. 

Hiccough at night. 

" Coryza, fluid or dry, with loss of taste, sore 



PULSATILLA. 405 

, nostrils; later, a yellowish-green discharge. " 
— H. 

u Coryza, much worse every evening ; the 
l cough is very loose, and with all the fever, 
there is little or no thirst." — H. 

" Child has difficulty of breathing when it 
lies on its side; worse evenings/' — H. 

" Wetting the bed ; particularly little girls." 
— H. 

" Cough very loose, with vomiting of mucus, 
and nightly diarrhoea." — G. 

" Morning cough. " — F. 

Asthma, from deranged menstruation or sup- 
pressed urticaria. 

Menses; the eruption is slow in making 
its appearance, with loose catarrhal symp- 
toms. 

Catarrhal ophthalmia, especially of the lids, 
with profuse lachrymation and secretion of 
mucus. 

The eyes are always worse towards even- 
ing. 

Weak eyes, with frequent styes. 

%i Much pain in the ears, with deafness ; the 
meatus is red and swollen." — G. 

Catarrhal otitis, with much pain. 

Chronic otorrhoea, with discharge of pus. 

" Toothache, relieved by cold water in the 
mouth. ,, — F. 



406 PIA. 

u Toothaclic on one side of the face ; ah\ 
ceases on going into the open air. but returns 
in a warm room, and gets worse; the pains 
are throbbing, or shooting, accompanied with 
much swelling ; worse evenings ; in mild, tear- 
ful females.* 1 — G. 

Urticaria ; worse nights, with diarrhoea from 
greasy food. 

Rheumatism; pains shift rapidly from one 

pari to another, unattended with any great 

swelling or redness; chronic eases, with weak- 
ness, rigidity, coldness, and weight in the dis- 
eased tissues. 

Intermittent^ with long chill, little heat, and 
no thirst, 

" Very often needed in BfKASLES." — F. 

Worse in a warm room ; from fruit, ices, pork, 
pastry, warm food. 

Bad effects of Quinine; chlorosis from abuse 
of Iron; bad effects from suppressed menstrua- 
tion; from Mercury, Sulphur, Chamomile tea, 
watering-places, and rich food, pork, pastry, && 

SEPIA. 

Cuttle-fish Juice. 

Acts especially on the nervous and vascular 
tern, producing passive congestions, connected with 

dyserasial suffering. The reproducth tem 

must be involved. The grand sphere for the action 



SEPIA. 407 

of Sepia is upon the genito-uri nary apparatus, espe- 
cially affecting their mucous surfaces, their lym- 
phatics, and vascular system. 

Dr. Meyer, sajs of Sepia: 

" 1. It has its sphere of action on the portal sys- 
tem, in which it causes obstructions. 

u 2. Most of its symptoms indicate a higher de- 
gree of venous congestion. 

" 3. It is characterized by torpidity and depres- 
sion, often ending in perfect exhaustion of the vital 
powers. 

" 4. Hence it is suitable in mild and easy dis- 
positions, therefore especially for women. 

" 5. The affections arise and increase in severity, 
mostly in the evening and at night, during, and 
immediately after a meal. 

" 6. The affections either disappear during, or 
are alleviated by active exercise, and by pressure 
of the painful parts. 

" 7. The affections are often accompanied with 
chilliness. 

"8. Great sensitiveness of the skin to cold air." 

Lastly, it has a powerful influence on the skin, 
and lymphatic system. 

Grand Characteristics. 

" Fetid urine, depositing a clay-colored sedi- 
ment, which adheres to the chamber with great 
tenacity."— G. 

" The urine is so putrid that it cannot be 
suffered to remain in the room." — G. 

" The urine deposits a reddish clay-colored 






408 SEPIA. 

sediment, which adheres to the bottom and 
sides of the vessel, as if it had been burnt on 
like burnt clay." — G. 

" The bed is wet almost as soon as the child 
goes to sleep; always during his first Bleep." 
— G. 

u Gonorrhoea in the female alter the acute 
symptoms have subsided." — Hughes. 

Intense burning and cutting pain when uri- 
nating. 

"Sensation as if everything would oomeout 
of the vagina ; she has to cross her limbs to 
prevent it. v — G. 

fcw Burning, shooting, and stitching pains in 
the neck of the uterus." — G. 

"A painful stillness in the uterine region. " 
— G. 

u Pressing in the uterus oppressing breath- 
ing."— G. 

" Prolapsus of the uterus and vagina; she 
has to cross her limbs, to prevent everything 
coming out of the vagina/' — G. 

u Leucorrhoea, with stitches in the neck of 
the uterus, and much itching in the vagina.'' 
— G. 

" Profuse mucous leucorrhoea, having a fetid 
smell, or like pus, with drawing pains in the 
abdomen." — G. 

" Leucorrhoea of a sanguineous, mucous, yel- 



SEPIA. 409 

lowish, watery character, worse after urinat- 
ing."-G. 

" Discharge of a green-red fluid from the 
I vagina during pregnancy." — G. 

" A putrid, excoriating discharge from the 
uterus, with shooting, stitching, and burning 
i in the neck of the uterus." — G. 

"Lancinating pain from the uterus to the 
■ umbilicus." — G. 

" One of the most frequently indicated reme- 
' dies for painful coition ; contractive pain in 
the vagina ; almost continual stitches in the 
vagina." — G. 

Induration of the cervix uteri, with stitching 
pains in it, extending upwards. 

" Troublesome and severe itching of the 
vulva, with pimples all around ; painless ves- 
• icles in the outer parts of the vulva." — G. 
" Severe itching of the vulva ; the labia are 
swollen, with a humid eruption." — G. 

" Menorrhagia, with a painful sensation of 

emptiness at the pit of the stomach ; urine 

j very fetid, and a sediment like burnt clay upon 

the bottom of the vessel ; yellow saddle across 

the nose, and spots on the face." — G. 

u Chronic metrorrhagia, when it is excited 
from the least cause ; she has icy-cold parox- 
ysms ; icy-cold feet, and flushes of heat ; great 
sense of emptiness at the pit of the stomach ; 

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410 SEPIA. 

constipation, with great sense of weight at the 
anus, not relieved by stool." — G. 

" Before the menses, violent colic, shudder- 
ing all over the body the whole day ; acrid 
leucorrhoea; sensation as if the vulva were en- 
larged, and soreness in the perineum/' — G. 

" During the menses, tearing in the tibia; 
toothache; obscuration of Bight, and violent 
pressure in the forehead, with discharge of 

plugs from the nose.'' — ( i. 

"Amenorrheas in feeble constitutions, with 

delicate thin skin ; menstruation always ir- 
regular; sweats profusely when walking; par- 
ticularly sensitive to cold air; repeated shud- 
dering the whole day dining the menstrual 
nisus; constipation and sense of weight in the 
anus ; painful sensation of emptiness at the pit 
of the stomach ; swollen and puffy appearai, 
of the whole body j face puffy, pale, or yellow." 
— MARC? and Hunt. 

" Between the menses a peculiar offensive 
perspiration, sudor hystericus, with a pungent, 
offensive perspiration in the axilla and soles 
of the feet."— G. 

Sense of weight or ball in the anus not re- 
lieved by stool. 

" Constipation : stools hard, difficult, and 
knotty, with sense of weight in the anus, not 
relieved by an evacuation." — G. 



SEPIA. 411 

"The stool is very difficult, covered with 
mucus, and sometimes impossible to pass, even 
with the most terrible straining, with much 
burning at the anus and rectum, and sense of 
great weight at the anus." — G. 

Piles ; the portal circulation is retarded, 
causing an overloading of the portal vascular 
system with venous blood, plethora venosa; 
protrusion of the piles and anus ; continual 
straining pain in the rectum ; heat, burning, 
and swelling of the anus ; discharge of black 
venous blood. 

" Labor pains, with shuddering ; rather wants 
to be covered up more, because she can bear 
the pains easier; spasmodic contractions of the 
neck of the womb." — G. 

" Offensive, excoriating lochia." — G. 

" The nipples crack very much across the 
crown; in various places deep cracks." — G. 

" Morning sickness; she cannot take her ac- 
' customed ride in the morning, on account of 
• nausea and painful feeling of hunger in the 
stomach." — G. 

" In the morning, nausea, as if all the viscera 
were turning inside out; inclination to vomit 
in the morning when rinsing her mouth out." 
— G. 

" Vomiting of milky water, or milky mucus, 



412 SEPIA. 

with sense of emptiness of the pit of the stom- 
ach."— G. 

"The thought of food sickens her, with 
sense of great weight in the anus." — G. 

"Eructations tasting like spoiled eggs, or 
manure, with aversion to meat," — G. 

" Pot-bellied ness in women, with yellow sad- 
dle across the nose; very irritable and faint 
from the least exertion." — IJ.VUE. 

" Paroxysms of something twisting about in 

the stomach, and rising towards the throat ; 
her tongue becomes stiff; she becomes speech- 
less and rigid like B statue." — (\. 

" Sudden iaintness, with profuse BWeatfl and 

undisturbed consciousness, without being able 
to speak or stir/' — G. 

"Involuntary fits of laughter. 91 — G, 

"Sensation of coldness between the shoul- 
ders, followed by general coldness, and convul- 
sive twitching of the right side, and difficulty 
of breathing." — G. 

" Icy coldness of the feet" — G. 

" Yellowness of the face, particularly across 
the bridge of the nose, like a saddle." — G. 

"Very sad and fearful about her health; 
often weeps about it." — G. 

Hemicrania from an affection of the repro- 
ductive system ; countenance pale ; face dirty 
yellow; especially in young females in which 



SEPIA. 413 

the cerebral nerves have excited the sympa- 
thetic; producing a long train of hysterical 
symptoms; the pain is stinging, aching, throb- 
bing, tearing, and piercing. 

" Great indifference to her own family." — G. 

" Loose cough in the morning, with efforts 
to vomit." — G. 

" Eruption very moist, almost constantly dis- 
charging pus-like matter; the child often jerks 
his head to and fro." — G. 

"The least injury tends to ulcerate in thin, 
delicate skins." — Marcy and Hunt. 

u The dandruff comes in circles like ring- 
I worm." — Marcy and Hunt. 

" Specific in Herpes circinatus." — F. 

"Worse in dry weather; during rest; when 
lying, sitting, and standing ; on expiration ; 
from uncovering, lying on back, and when 
scratching." — Gross. 

It is especially adapted to chronic diseases, 
affecting the female sex; especially when the 
sexual organs are in trouble, during the period 
of ovario-uterine activity. 

Should never be used below the 30th, and 
more frequently the 100th and 200th dilu- 
tions. 



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414 KREOSOTE. 

KREOSOTE. 
Creasotum. 

Acts through the vegetative nervous system, 
upon the digestive organs, teeth, bones, and es- 
pecially upon the generative organs of won* 

This remedy affects the organism wry much 
like Pulsatilla, but more powerfully and deeply. 
As a remedy for female diseases, it rivals Pulsa- 
tilla. 

Grand Characteristics. 

c * Menses too early, too profuse, and last toa 

long; inclined to he intermittent; she thinks 
she is almost well, when the discharge returns 
afresh." — G. 

"She always feels chilly at the menstrual 
period." — G. 

u Difficulty of hearing, before and during 
the menses, with buzzing and humming in 
the head." — G. 

u The menses are usually too frequent and 
too profuse, succeeded by an acrid-smelling. 
bloody ichor, with corrosive itching and hiting 
of the parts, and more or less pain during the 
flow, but much aggravated after it ceases." — G. 

" Acrid, bloody ichor from the womb, with 
corrosive itching and biting of the pan 
stitches in the vagina." — G. 

" Stitches in the vagina, coming from above, 
causing her to start.'— G. 



KREOSOTE. 415 

"Putrid, acrid, corrosive leucorrhoea." — G. 

" Leucorrhoea, with great debility, particu- 
larly of the lower extremities; it may be mild 
or acrid, causing much itching." — G. 

" Very offensive, excoriating lochia, almost 
ceasing; then it freshens up, and again al- 
most ceases, to freshen up again. " — G. 

" Her hemorrhage seems to pass into a cor- 
rosive, ichorous discharge, and then to freshen 
up again, and go on." — G^ 

" Continual hemorrhage from the tumor; at 
times becomes pale, and almost entirely ceases, 
and then recommences afresh." — G. 

"Cancer of the uterus, with profuse discharge 
of dark, coagulated blood, or of a pungent, 
bloody ichor, preceded by pain in the back." 

"Corrosive itching within the vulva, and 
biting between the labia and thighs, with sore- 
ness and burning after urinating." — G. 

"Voluptuous itching, deep in the vagina." 

" Burning and swelling of the external and 
internal labia." — G. 

" In cancer, the whole mamma is hard, blu- 
ish-red, and covered with little, scurfy pro- 
tuberances." — G. 

"Awful burning, as of red-hot coal in the 
pelvis, with discharge of clots of blood, having 
a foul smell." — G. 

"Sympathetic vomiting, where the irritation 






416 KREOSOTE. 

starts from some other organ besides the stom- 
ach." — Hughes. 

" Teeth decay as soon as they appear." — G. 

"When dentition is so badly performed as 
to become a disease, comprising general irrita- 
tion of the teeth themselves, especially when 
the child is constipated/' with great irritabil- 
ity and Bleeplessn* 

"Constipation in cachectic, delicate chil- 
dren."— G. 

Caries of the teeth, when the pain is accom- 
panied by turgescence of the gums, and facial 
congestion. 

"Paroxysmal, moist cough, apparently cau 

by something crawling behind the sternum. M — 

Prof. Walker, 

Spasmodic, moist cough. 
"Buzzing and ringing in the head, with deaf- 
ness during the menses. v — G. 

"Wretched, livid complexion.' 1 — G. 

" Complexion livid; disposition sad and ir- 
ritable."— G. 

GSdema of the feet. 

Fetid sweat of the feet. 

"Herpes: humid, scaly, pustulous; on ears. 
eyelids, cheeks, mouth, elbows, fingers, malle- 
oli; or large, greasy, pox-shaped pustules all 
over the body." — Lippe. 

Especially adapted to putrid diseases. 



SABINA. 417 

SABINA. 

Common Savin. 

Acts especially on the generative apparatus of 
woman, and urinary organs. On the uterus it pro- 
duces great congestion, violent inflammation, great 
pain, dreadful hemorrhage, abortion, and death. 
On the urinary organs it produces congestion, in- 
flammation, and great strangury. 

Also, has a most powerful effect on the gastro- 
intestinal canal; producing violent inflammation, 
vomiting, intense pain in the abdomen, purging, 
strangury, and death. 

Portal congestion is a prominent effect of Sa- 
bina. 

Also produces an arthritic diathesis. 



Grand Characteristics. 

" Especially adapted to plethoric women, 
whose menses are habitually profuse, with 
drawing and tearing pains, from the back 
. through to the pubis." — G. 

" Metrorrhagia of clotted and fluid blood, 
with pain extending from the sacrum, or lum- 
bar region, to the pubis." — G. 

" Suppression of the menses is followed by a 
thin, fetid leucorrhoea." — G. 

" Especially useful in protracted uterine 
hemorrhages, arising from a loss of tone in the 
vessels of the uterus, whether from previous 



418 SABIXA. 

disease, or the weight and pressure of the foetus 
in utero ; blood dark and clotted." — G. 

u Hemorrhage after abortion or parturition; 
the blood is dark, having blackish clots, mixed 
with thin, watery blood; the pain extends from 
the back through to the pubis.* 1 — G. 

" Dysmenorrhea, with violent pain extend- 
ing from the back through to the pubis." — G. 

u Excessive debilitating menses, with ab- 
dominal spasms; the blood is partly fluid and 
partly (dotted, and the pain runs from the back 

through to the pubis." — f;. 

u Yellowish, ichorous, fetid, ieucorrh 
and painful discharges of fetid blood every 

tWO weeks." — ( i. 

"Leucorrhoea, after suppression of the men- 
3 ; inclining to be corrosive, with itching of 

the vulva.'— Gh 

u Severe stitching in the vagina, from be- 
fore backwards." — G. 

"An almost insatiable desire for an em- 
brace:— G. 

"Copious, Btarch-like leucorrhoea, with draw- 
ing pains in the small of the back through to 

the pubis." — G. 

" This is one of the very best remedies we 
have to prevent abortion, at about the third 
month. Should be given in the 200th. " — G. 

"She is very nervous and hysterical; and 



SABINA. 419 

if she becomes pregnant, she is almost sure to 
abort about the third month." — G. 

"Dystocia; pain of an uneasy, bad feeling, 
extending from the sacrum to the pubis ; a 
slight sensation as of motion in the abdomen." 
— G. 

" A quivering, as if something were alive in 
the abdomen." — G. 

" Ardor urinse, and profuse discharge of dark 
blood, with abdominal spasms." 

" Diarrhoea, with pains extending from the 
back through to the pubis." — G. 

" Constipation ; stools difficult and painful ; 
pain from the back to the pubis." — G. 

" Piles ; discharge of bright red or dark ve- 
nous blood, with pain from the back through 
to the pubis." — G. 

" Frequent urging to stool ; finally a liquid 
portion is discharged, followed by a hard por- 
tion."— G. 

" The cysts become swollen, red, and pain- 
ful to the touch, or there are tearing pains 
during rest." — G. 

" Music is intolerable to her." — G. 

" Much irritability of temper." — G. 

"Fig warts, with intolerable itching and 
burning in them." — G. 

" Broad condylomata." — F. 

Bcenninghausen says, "He found Sabina 



420 HAMAMELIS VIRGINICA. 

the most efficient remedy in gout ; and since 
it produces condylomata, it may be suspected 
that this malady, so much dreaded by our 
fathers, may have a syeotie anamnesi 

" Chronic arthritis; cannot bear a heated 
room; better in cool air." — G. 

Use the 30th and 200th dilution; very sel- 
dom the Gth and 3d. 

HAMAMELIS VIRGINICA. 

Witch HazeL 

Acts especially on the venous Bystem, and on 
the generative Organs Of man and woman. 

On the r i\ produces venom 

tion, inflammation, hemorrhage, and varieosis. 

On the generative organ t, it prodn< 

intense neuralgia and inflammation of the testi- 
cles ; amorous dreams, with emissions; great pros- 
tration of the animal passions; profuse cold sw< 
on the scrotum, with great relaxation (A' the gen- 
ital organs, and varieosis of the spermatic veins. 

On the general ms of woman, it produces 

great irritation, congestion, inflammation, and 
neuralgia of the ovaries; passive hemorrhage from 
the uterus, and irritates the venous capillaries of 
the raucous membrane of the vagina and uterus. 

Grand Characteristics. 

Dr. Hughes says: "I have the greatest con- 
fidence in Hamanielis, in phlebitis, in the va- 



HAMAMELIS VIRGINICA. 421 

rious forms of varicosis, and in venous hemor- 
rhages. In varicose veins of the leg, I con- 
join its external with its internal use, laying 
strips of calico, soaked in a weak solution of 
one part to twenty, along the enlarged vessels, 
and supporting all with a bandage." 

u In passive hemorrhages from all parts, 
whether from nose, stomach, lungs, or bowels, 
I have the utmost confidence in its use." — 
Hughes. 

" I think that the hemorrhages it cures de- 
: pend rather upon the state of the bloodves- 
sels, than on that of the blood." — Hughes. 

" Passive hemorrhages and venous conges- 
tion."— B. 

" Epistaxis, either active or passive ; long- 
lasting; blood venous." — Dr. Preston. 

" Hsematemesis, with vomiting of large 
quantities of dark-colored blood." — Dr. Pres- 

• TON. 

" Dysenteric stools, loaded with dark, black 
blood."— Dr. Dunn. 

" Bleeding hemorrhoids, with burning sore- 
: ness, and, at times, rawness of the anus, from 
portal congestion; the hemorrhage is gener- 
ally very profuse ; use it locally as well as in- 
ternally." — Hale. 

"Hematuria of dark, black blood." — Dr. 
Preston. 

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422 HAMAMELIS VIRGINICA. 

" Varicose veins of the leg and foot, and 
phlegmasia alba dolens." — Dr. Prestox. 

"Varicose veins during pregnancy, with 
painful stiffness of the leg, and great weak- 
ness; sometimes burst and bleed profusely/' — 
Dr. Preston. 

" Great pain in the right log, from the knee 
to the hip; leg much swollen, and sensitive to 
the touch; the cutaneous veins hard, knotty, 
swollen, and painful; veins of the abdomen 
hard, like cords, red and painful; skin ery- 
sipelatous; pulse small and wiry; urine red 
and scanty; much thirst; no appetite/' — Dr. 
Prestox. 

"Haemoptysis, active or passive; blood ve- 
nous, and comes up into the mouth without 
coughing, or scarcely any effort." — Dr. E. W. 
Payne. 

" Hemorrhage from the bowels, from portal 
congestion ; stools dark and grumous, with 
great faintness, and cold sweat." — Dr. L. 
Pratt. 

Long-lasting hemorrhage from extracting 
teeth. 

" Discharge of blood per ani, in large quan- 
tities, of a tar-like consistency ; hence, a spe- 
cific in typhoid fever, with a bloody crisis." — 
W. H. Guernsey. 

" Orchitis, with much pain, and great tume- 



HAMAMELIS VIRGINICA. 423 

faction of the testicles." Use internally and 
locally. 

Neuralgia of the testicles ; worse nights, and 
during rainy weather. 

Impotence ; organs much relaxed, with cold 
sweat on the scrotum. 

" Varicosis of the spermatic veins ; testicles 
much swollen, with drawing pains in the sper- 
matic cord. Use locally and internally." — Dr. 
Preston. 

" Ovarian diseases, accompanied with much 
swelling and tenderness. Locally and inter- 
nally." — Dr. R. Ludlam. 

" Ovaritis, from mechanical injury ; ovarian 
region much swollen and tender ; much pain, 
extending over the whole abdomen." — Dr. 
Okie. 

u Frequent paroxysms of pain in the left 
ovary, passing down to the uterus, with anae- 
mia, and every day or two the ovarian region 
» much swollen." — B. 

Cutting, tearing pains in the ovary, which 
is swollen, and very tender* 

Dysmenorrhoea, from ovarian irritation. 

u Vicarious menstruation, from ovarian irri- 
tation." — Dr. Ken yon. 

" Passive, venous, uterine hemorrhage." 

" Leucorrhcea, with much relaxation of the 
vaginal walls." — Hale. 






424 TRILLIUM PENDULUM. 

Conjunctival inflammation, especially (7f the 
lids; also styes. Locally. 

u The pains are often unbearable, with great 
sensitiveness to the touch, and fear of exciting 
new pain on moving." — B. 

Ose the tincture, 3d, 6th, and 30th dilutions. 

TRILLIUM PENDULUM. 
Beth J: 

Ad iallj on the generative organs of wo- 

men, affecting the motor nerve- of the capillary 
bloodvessels, producing relaxation of the muscular 
fibre, and mucous coats, causii hemor- 

rhag 

Also affects the kidneys and mucous membranes. 

Grand ( 'har<t< 1eristi< s. 

Its great field of usefulness lies among the 
hemorrhages, especially from the uterus and 
kidneys. 

"Excessive flooding, with fainting; face 
pale and anxious; extremities cold; no pain." 
— Dr. E. G. Wheeler. 

In passive, uterine hemorrhage, with occa- 
sional clots, and much fetor, it is extremely 
valuable. 

" Profuse uterine hemorrhage, at the climac- 
teric period, with prostration, vertigo, dimm 
of sight, palpitation of the heart, and painful 



CYCLAMEN EUROPIUM. 425 

sense of sinking at the pit of the stomach." — 
Hale. 

" Menses every fourteen days, lasting seven 
and eight days ; in the intervening time, profuse 
leucorrhoea, of a yellowish color and creamy 
consistence ; the blood is at first bright red, but 
owing to anaemia, grows pale." — Raue. 

M Profuse exhausting leucorrhoea, with atony, 
prolapsus, and chronic engorgement of the cer- 
vix."— Dr. Coe. 

" Profuse lochial discharges." — Dr. Coe. 

" Profuse yellowish leucorrhoea." 

" Passive hemorrhages, from nearly all mu- 
cous membranes, especially the kidneys and 
nose." — Hale. 

" Chronic diarrhoea, of bloody mucus." 

Use the tincture, to the 6th dilution. 

CYCLAMEN EUROPJETTM. 

Sow Bread. 

Acts especially on the cerebro-spihal system, gas- 
trointestinal apparatus, and female sexual organs. 

On the head, it produces sudden stupefaction ; 
vertigo, and dull pressing headache ; obscuration 
of sight ; dilatation of the pupils; sleepiness ; sleep 
disturbed by bad dreams ; excessive sadness and 
melancholy. 

On the gastro-intestinal canal, it causes violent 
vomiting and purging ; sometimes vomiting of 

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426 CYCLAMEN EUROPIUM. 

blood, with cold sweats ; singing in the ears, and 
swimming of the head. 

On the generatitx organs of , it causes men- 

struation, increased in quantity, black and lumpy, 
and attended with hard labor pains. 

Grand Characteristic** 

"Menorrhagia, with stupefaction of the 

whole head, and obscuration of sight* as if a 
fog were before the eyes." — Gt. 

" Scanty, painful, or BUppressed menstrua- 
tion, with headache, vertigo, swollen eyelids, 

pale face, lips, and gums, loss of appetite, no 
thirst, and palpitation of the heart." — G. 

Dr. Eidherr Bays, u He found it very effica- 
cious, with blonde. Leucophlegmatic subjects, in 

whom, besides retarded, suppressed, or scanty 

menstruation, or complete chlorosis, there was 
disinclination for any kind of labor; fatigue 
from slight can- mtinual sleepiness, and 

chilliness all over the body, which no amount 
of covering would relieve." 

Menses every two to four months, with ex- 
cessive labor-like pains ; vertigo ; pressive pain 
in the forehead; anaemia; fits of fainting, and 
constant chilliness of the whole body. 

Suppression of the menses, with melancholy; 
dizziness and headache; wants to be alone: 
weeping does her good ; swelling of the eye- 



CROCUS SATIVUS. 427 

lids ; pale lips and gums ; heart's action vio- 
lent ; always tired ; loss of appetite, and con- 
stipation. 

u Constant chilliness, with great desire for 
fresh air." — G. 

Vertigo, diplopia, and strabismus. 

Periodical, semilateral headache, with dizzi- 
ness; diplopia; skin, eyelids, lips and gums 
very pale ; much chilliness. 

"After eating the least quantity, disgust and 
nausea in the palate and throat, with much 
dimness of vision ; fiery sparks before the eyes, 
and intermittent thirst." — G. 

The symptoms are aggravated in the even- 
ing, during rest, sitting, lying and standing. 

Use the 30th, occasionally the 6th or 3d. 

CROCUS SATIVUS. 
Saffron. 

Acts especially on the generative organs of 
women, and on the sympathetic nervous system. 
On the uterus it produces congestion and hemor- 
rhage of dark-colored blood. On the sympathetic 
• nervous system it causes an extraordinary laugh- 
ing mania. 

Grand Characteristics* 

"Menorrhagia, of dark, stringy blood; as it 
is discharged, it forms itself into long string 
— G. 



428 CROCUS SATIVUS. 

Menorrhagia, blood dark and clotted. 

" Blacky stringy discharge from the uterus, 
with rolling and bounding in the abdomen. 
from a foetus." — G. 

Passive uterine hemorrhage; blood dark and 
stringy, in nervous hysterical women. 

Flooding worse on motion. 

"Dysmenorrhea with dark, stringy blood, 
and sensation in the stomach of great commo- 
tion, upwards and downwards, hither and 
thither."— C. 

Miscarriage at third month. 

False, or nervous pregnancy, with sensation 
as of something alive in the abdomen. 

"Epistaxifi of black, stringy blood. v — G. 

"She 18 worse every evening, with alterna- 
tions of excessive, happy, affectionate tender- 
ness, and rage." — G. 

Chorea every seven days, with great hilarity, 
dancing, singing. &C 

"Spasmodic contraction of single muscles; 
jumping, dancing, laughing, whistling, wants 
to kiss everybody, with congestion of the 
head."— G. 

Sings during sleep. 

" Great mental dejection ; menses suppressed, 
or blood dark and stringy." — G. 

" Yellowdsh, earthy color of the face." — G. 



THLASPI BURSA PASTORIS. 429 

" Great debility and palpitation of the heart 
on going up stairs." — G. 

Use the 30th and 200th. 

"Stitches in the abdomen arresting respi- 
ration. " 

" Feeling of nausea in the chest and throat, 
as if she would vomit." — G. 

" Long, dull stitches near the anus ; from 
time to time continuous, and painfully affect- 
ing the whole nervous system." — G. 

" Feeling as if there were a gauze before the 
eyes."— G. 

Use the 30th, 200th, and occasionally the 
3d, and tincture. 

THLASPI BURSA PASTORIS. 

Shepherd's Piwse. 

Acts especially on the generative organs of 
women, causing congestions and hemorrhage. 



Its characteristics are unknown, but from 
what I can learn from the United States Med- 
ical and Surgical Journal, it is adapted to men- 
orrhagia, too frequent, degenerating into a real 
hemorrhage, lasting many days ; blood clotted 
with uterine colic. 

Premature menstruation; u first day she 
barely had a show, but on the second day 



430 SENECIO AUREUS. 

there was a real hemorrhage, with severe col- 
ics, vomiting and expulsion of clots; the flow 
continued very long, eight, ten, and even fif- 
teen days, and then left the patient in a state 
of exhaustion, from which she had not time to 
recover, before another period ; one period very 
profuse, the next less SO.* 

Profuse hemorrhages from all parts of the 
body. — Liitk. 

Mi\ Jousset says. u I have met with special 
success in hemorrhages, with violent uterine 
colic, with cramps consequent on ahortion, at 
the critical age, and even where then 
cancer of the neck." 

Hemorrhage from cancer of the uterine 
neck, without pains. 

It has given good satisfaction, in tincture, 
and at the 12th dilution. 

SENECIO AUREUS. 

Life Jioot. 

Acts especially on the generative organs of 
women, the urinary organs, and on the vaginal, 
intestinal, and pulmonary mucous membranes. 

Its characteristics are not known. 

Its effects resemble, very closely, Pulsatilla ; 
and it has been found very useful in amen nr- 
rhoea, profuse leucorrhcea. catarrhal inflamma- 



CINNAMON — MILLEFOLIUM. 431 

tion of the kidneys, and catarrhal affections of 
the lungs. 

CINNAMON. 

Cassice Cortex. 

Acts on the generative organs of women, and 
on the gastro-intestinal canal. 

Grand Characteristics. 

" Menses too early and too profuse, particu- 
larly in females troubled with itchings of the 
nose and nightly restlessness; profuse flow of 
red blood."— G. 

" She is constantly tossing, even during 
sleep."— G. 

" Diarrhoea always worse after drinking." 
— G. 

"Uterine hemorrhage, threatening or follow- 
ing miscarriage, especially if from a strain." 
-F. 

" After a false step, or strain in the loins, 
'the chief symptom is a profuse flow of red 
blood, in abortion." — G. 

Much flatulence. 

Use 3d and 6th dilution. 

MILLEFOLIUM. 

Yarrow. 
Acts especially on the vascular system, motor 
nervous system, and mucous membranes. 



432 TANACETUM VULGARE. 

Grand Chararf* ristics 

Are unknown; but it is especially adapted to 
all hemorrhages; more especially from the nos 
lungs, kidneys, bowels, and sexual organs. 

" Haemoptysis, and other hemorrhages, in 
consequence of violent exertions." — F. 

It stands at the head of the long list of our 
remedies for hemorrhage 

Use in low dilutions. 

TANACETUM VULGARE. 
Ta\ 
Acts especially on the generative organ* 

women, and On the motor nervous system; also, 
upon the kidneys and sympathetic nervous sys- 
tem. 

On the uterus^ it causes profuse menstruation, 
uterine hemorrhage, with labor-pains, and abor- 
tion. 

On the motto />/< m, it causes cramps and 

clonic spasms. 

On the kidneys^ it causes congestion. 

On the sympathetic nerx U hi, it causes symp- 

toms resembling hysteria. 

Also affects the digestive apparatus similar to 
Helminthiasis. 

Its characteristics are not known. 
It is recommended by Dr. Lippe as " especi- 
ally suitable in St. Vitus's dance." 



CAULOPHYLLUM THALICTROIDES. 433 

GOSSYPIUM HERBACEUM. 

Cotton Plant. 

Acts on the generative organs of women ; affect- 
ing, especially, the motor nerves of the uterus, pro- 
ducing uterine cramps and abortion. 

Characteristics are unknown. 

In the South, the green root, in decoction, 
is used in lingering cases of labor, with feeble 
pains ; and to produce abortion. 

Also, useful in dysmenorrhoea. 

CAULOPHYLLUM THALICTROIDES. 

Blue Cohosh. 

Acts upon the cerebro-spinal system ; affecting, 
especially, the motor and sentient nervous system, 
and the female generative organs. 

It also affects the muscular system, and small 
joints ; metacarpal, tarsal, metatarsal, and all the 
phalangeal joints. 

Grand CJiaracteristics. 

" Especially affects the uterine motor nerves, 
so as to cause painful contractions and menor- 
rhagia, and metrorrhagia. 

"Menstrual irregularities; the pains and 
sufferings are of a spasmodic character; scanty 
flow; sympathetic cramps and spasms of neigh- 

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434 CAULOPHYLLUM THALICTROIDES. 

boring organs: as the bladder, rectum, and 
bowels." — Hale. 

" The motor power of the uterus seems al- 
most entirely gone." — Hale. 

"The menstrual flow is retarded, from a 
simple lack of the excito-motor force, either 
in the Fallopian tubes, or the parietes of the 
uterus itself/ 1 — Hale. 

" Hemorrhage; due to deficient contractility, 
or deficient involution of the uterine tissues 
— Hale. 

Passive hemorrhages; an oozing from the 
lax uterine vessels, from debility of the exeito- 
motor nerves of the uterus. 

" Deficient, spasmodic Labor-pains." — Hale. 

Abortion ; the pains are irregular and spas- 
modic. 

"Protracted lochia, from atony of the ute- 
rus." — Dr. Krebs. 

" Reflex paraplegia, from an abnormal state 
of the uterus." — Hale. 

" Complete insomnia. " — LuDLAM. 

" In hysterical women, with rheumatism of 
the uterus, and many spasmodic symptoms." — 
Hale. 

Articular, inflammatory rheumatism of the 
small joints, in women. 

" Rheumatism of wrists and hands." — F. 

Hysterical spasms of the chest and larynx. 



ACIDUM SULPHURICUxM. 435 



GROUP XV. 



Acidum sulphuricum, 
Acidum nitricum, 
Acidum phosphoricum, 
Acidum muriaticum, 
Acidum hydrocyanicum, 



Acidum carbolicum, 
Acidum fluoricum, 
Acidum benzoicum, 
Acidum oxalicum. 



M. Tartra considers that M four varieties may 
be observed in the eflects of the mineral acids. 1. 
Speedy death, from violent corrosion and inflam- 

] mation. 2. Slow death, from a peculiar organic 
disease of the stomach and intestine. 3. Imper- 
fect recovery ; the person remaining liable ever 

I after to irritability of the stomach. 4. Perfect 
recovery." 

This group may r be called the corrosive or es- 
charotic group. 

ACIDUM SULPHURICUM. 

Sulphuric Acid. 

Acts especially on the ganglionic nervous sys- 
tem that presides over nutrition of the digestive 
apparatus ; upon the cerebro-spinal system ; upon 
the genito-urinary organs ; and upon the skin. 

Grand Characteristics. 

"Much debility, with sensation of tremor 
all over the body, without trembling. 9 — G. 



436 ACIDUM SULPHURICUM. 

" Coldness and relaxed feeling in the stom- 
ach ; loss of appetite and great debility." 
— G. 

" Diarrhoea, with great debility; sensation 
of tremor all over the body, without trem- 
bling.'— G. 

"Hard stool, consisting of small black 
lumps, mixed with blood, accompanied with 
such violent prickings in the anus that she 
has to rise up on account of the pain, with sen- 
sation of tremor all over the body, without 
trembling:'— G. 

Valuable for lead colic. (Also Alumina.) 

" Hemorrhages of black blood from all the 
outlets of the body." — IIuches. 

Acidity of the stomach. 

"Aphthae; the mouth appears very painful, 
and the child is very weak; ecchymosis." 
— G. 

"When some general deep-seated dyserasia 
prevails, and the child is weak and exhausted, 
with no other symptoms." — G. 

" She always gets a distressing nightmare 
before the menses." — G. 

"Menses too early and too profuse; always 
preceded by a distressing nightmare; much 
general debility, and tremulous sensation in 
the whole body, without trembling." — G. 



ACIDUM NITRICUM. 437 

"Metrorrhagia, with tremulous sensation 
all over the body, without trembling/' — G. 

"Leucorrhoea of sanguineous mucus, with 
a sensation as if the menses would come on." 
— G. 

" Milky or transparent leucorrhoea, without 
sensation." — G. 

" Climacteric age, with constant flushes of 
heat, and a tremulous sensation all over the 
j body, without trembling." 

Profuse perspiration, with great debility. 

Chronic headaches in leucophlegmatic tem- 
peraments, and relaxed muscles, with great 
debility in women subject to leucorrhoea. 

Dose, 30th, 200th, and occasionally the 3d 
dilution. 

Note. — There are so many chemical symp- 
toms in the pathogenesis of the Acids, which 
are perfectly worthless to us as to their thera- 
peutic value, that it is exceedingly hard to 
i pick out their characteristics. 

ACIDUM NITRICUM. 

Nitric Acid. 

Acts especially on the mucous outlets of the 
\ body, where the mucous membrane merges into 
t skin; the rectum and anus; vagina and mouth. 
\ It also affects the whole alimentary canal, espe- 
cially the liver, the glandular system, the cerebro 

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438 ACIDUM NITRICUM. 

spinal system, genitourinary organs, the skin, and, 
lastly, the blood. 

Grand Chmrwcterittiicm, 

Especially adapted to diseased depending 
upon the presence of some virulent poison, 
such as syphilitic, mercurial, and scrofulous 
miasm-. 

Salivation and ulceration of the mouth, from 
abase of mercury. 

Spreading ulcers in the mouth and throat. 

Swelling of the parotid and submaxillary 

glands, with bleeding of the gums. 

Putrid-smelling breath; mouth full of fetid 

ulcers; bloody saliva; mouth very dry. 

Sore throtit, extending up into the DO 
discharges profuse thin purulent matter, with 

intermitting bteathing. 

"Much nausea and gastric trouhle, relieved 

by moving about, or riding in a carriage." — G. 

"Constant nausea, with heat in the throat." 

"Fat food causes nausea and acidity, the 
urine smelling like that of horses." — G. 

" Hard, difficult, and scanty stool." — G. 

"Diarrhoea; great pain during and after 
stool, as though the anus was fissured." — G. 

" Inclination to looseness of the bowels ; 
most violent cutting pain after stool, lasting 
for hours." — G. 



ACIDUM NITRICUM. 439 

" Acute pain in the abdomen during stool ; 
worse in the morning;- stools brown and 
slimy."— G. 

" Very painful stools, with profuse discharge 
of blood ; the pain lasts so long, it is very ex- 
hausting." — G. 

" The patient is worse after twelve at night ; 
violent cramp-like pains, as if the abdomen 
would burst; with constant eructations." — G. 

" Old hemorrhoidal tumors, secreting much 
slime, and bleeding profusely after stool. " — G. 

" Proctalgia."— F. 

This is the best remedy we have for fissures 
in the anus. 

" Fissures of the anus, on going to stool ; pain 
in the rectum, as if something were torn away, 
or twitchings in the rectum, and spasmodic con- 
traction of the anus, many hours after stool." 

" Smarting more in the rectum than in the 

anus, immediately after stool, and continuing 

1 two or three hours ; sometimes prolapsus ani, 

or discharge of much blood, accompanies these 

, symptoms." — G. 

Prolapsus ani, with much pain and smarting 
in the rectum and anus. 

" Typhoid hemorrhages ; great sensitiveness 
I of the abdomen ; green, slimy, acrid diarrhoea, 
with tenesmus." — Hughes. 

"Chronic hepatitis; gland enlarged; acts 



440 ACIDUM NITRICUM. 

favorably, even if it is of a fungoid disorganiza- 
tion." — Hughes. 

" The urine has an intolerably strong smell, 
like that of horses. " — G. 

Extremely offensive urine. 

" Active h&maturia; urging after micturi- 
tion, with shuddering along the spine." — G. 

" Small blisters on the orifice of the urethra, 
and inner surface of the prepuce, forming chan- 
cre-like ulcers." — G. 

Balanitis and fig-warts, after abuse of Mer- 
cury, 

" Easily bleeding ulcere; look like raw flesh, 

with zigzag edges; exuberant granulations on 

its base."— G, 

** In syphilis, its particular sphere IS the mu- 
cous patches, mUCOUS tubercles, and general 

weakness of constitution, denoting that the 

system has been poisoned by Mercury, or shat- 
tered by the disease itself/' — Franklin. 

u Mercurio-syphilitie inflammations of the 
fauces."— F. 

Secondary affections of syphilis, especially 
in broken and cachectic constitutions, accom- 
panied with emaciation, debility, caries of the 
bones, unhealthy ulcers on the surface, and 
great derangement of the nervous system. 

" Menses too early, too profuse, and the urine 
emitting an intolerably strong smell. " — G. 



ACLDUM NITRICUM. 441 

" Violent pressure, as if everything were 
coming out of the vulva, with pain in the 
small of the back, through the hips, and down 
the thighs."— G. 

Leucorrhcea, consisting of mucus, which can 
be drawn out. 

Flesh-colored or greenish leucorrhoea. 

" Cherry-brown, and fetid leucorrhoea." — G. 

" Leucorrhoea, where a syphilitic taint is the 
basis of the affection." — G. 

The inguinal glands are sympathetically af- 
fected with the leucorrhoea. 

" Stitches in the vagina, from without in- 
wards, when walking in the open air." — G. 

Hard knots in the mammae. 

" Eyelids swollen, hard, livid ; copious yel- 
low discharge running down the cheeks." — 
Raue. 

" Old people, with great weakness and diar- 
rhoea." — Raue. 

Sleeps badly in the latter part of the night. 

Herpes, condylomata, tubercles, ulcers, and 
syphilitic eruptions, with sore, prickling, itch- 
, ing pains. 

One of the best known antidotes for all dis- 
eases of a mercurial origin. 

" Very often useful in affections occurring 
after typhoid fever, especially if allopathically 
treated with calomel." — F. 



442 ACIDUM PHOSPHORICUM. 

ACIDTJM PHOSPHORICUM. 

Phosphoric Acid* 

Acts especially on the great sympathetic and 
cerebrospinal nervous Bystem; through it, it has 
a powerful influence on the generative organs, the 

urinary organs, alimentary canal, bones, and >kin. 

Gran d Characteristics. 

"The chief sphere of the curative action of 
Phosphoric Acid, is the nervous system : and in 
this it influences less the functional than the 
organic diseases, when these latter are not very 
grave and deep." — HUOHES. 

"Suited to individuals of originally strong 
constitutions, hut which have become weak- 
ened by losses of animal fluids, by excesses, vio- 
lent acute diseases, chagrin, or a long suco 
sion of moral emotions." — Te>te. 

"Trinks looks upon Phosphoric Acid, Iron, 
and China, as the three leading restorers of the 
sinking vital energies." 

"Is very weak, and indifferent to the affairs 
of life ; listless ; apathetic." — G. 

" Indifferent to those things that used to in- 
terest her the most." — G. 

" Conscious, but apathetic and indifferent in 
typhoid fever." — F. 

Great sense of weakness, with a remarkable 



ACIDUM PHOSPHORICUM. 443 

state of indifference, from which she cannot 
arouse herself. 

Diseases caused by debilitating influences, 
with excessive emaciation, and great prostra- 
tion. 

" In children and young persons, who grow 
too fast, after self-abuse, or long grief." — G. 

Chronic consequences of grief, chagrin, care, 
anxiety, and disappointed love. 

" Dreadful pain on top of the head, as though 
the brain were crushed, after long-continued 
grief.'— G. 

" Delirium, drowsiness, and sopor." — G. 

Hypochondria, from sexual abuse. 

" It is probably through the nervous centres 
that it affects the male sexual organs, on which 
its influence is very powerful." — Hughes. 

" Impotence, especially when the sensibility 
of the parts is excessive, and the semen is dis- 
charged shortly after an erection, or without 
1 an erection." 

Bad effects from sexual excesses, with de- 
bilitating night sweats. 

" Too early and too long menstruation, with 
pain in the liver; has to rise frequently at night, 
to pass large quantities of colorless urine. ,, — G. 

" Pain universally in the liver, during the 
menses." — G. 



444 ACIDUM PHOSPHORICUM. 

" Profuse leucorrhoea, with itching, some 
days after the menses." — G. 

" Leucorrhoea, after the menses/' — G. 

" Uterine ulcer; has a copious, putrid, bloody 
discharge, with itching or corroding pain, or 
entirely destitute of pain.' 3 — G. 

"MeteOlistic distension of the uterus." 

" Metritis; great debility, with indifference 
to all about her; slow fever." — G. 

u Irritable uterus; it is distended with gas." 

u Scanty milk; debility and great apathy." 

— G. 

"She must often rise at night, in order to 
pass large quantities ofcolorlesfl urine." — G. 

" Urine like milk, mixed with jelly-like, 
bloody pieees, with pain in the kidney-/' 

"Phosphatic deposits, when these depend 

upon exeess of Phosphoric Acid, from waste of 
nervous tissue, or upon alkalinity of the urine, 
from nervous depression." — Hughes. 

Diabetes mellitus. 

" Gluey matter on the tongue, in choleraic 
diseases." 

" Bread tastes bitter."— G. 

" Mercurial, syphilitic ulceration of the lips, 
gums, and soft palate, with swelling of the 
bones ; condylomata." — Hempel. 

" Nausea, as if in the palate." — G. 



ACIDUM PHOSPHORICUM. 445 

" Sensation as if the stomach were beinc; 
balanced up and down." — G. 

"Children, with pale, sickly look; great de- 
bility; painless diarrhoea, and tottering gait." 
— G. 

Meteoristic distension of the abdomen, 

"Clammy, sticky tongue; abdomen much 
bloated; great rumbling in the bowels, and 
painless, watery diarrhoea, in cholera epidem- 
ics/' — Raue. 

" Often specific in the diarrhoea which pre- 
cedes epidemic cholera." — F. 

" Copious, watery diarrhoea, with rumbling 
in the bowels." — Raue. 

" Stools, yellowish, and very offensive ; the 
child is very listless ; wants nothing, and cares 
for nothing." — G. 

" The diarrhoea, although of long continuance, 
does not seem to debilitate much ; the mother 
wonders that the child remains so strong with 
it all."— G. 

" White, gray diarrhoea." — Raue. 

" The stools are hard and in pieces ; she is 
obliged to rise frequently at night to void large 
quantities of colorless urine." — G, 

" Intense pain in the periosteum of all the 
bones, as if scraped with a knife. r — G. 

"Hysteric affections of young women, with 
irritable fibre, excessive sensibility and irrita- 

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446' ACIDUM MURIATICUM. 

bility, accompanied by extreme delicacy and 
sponginessof the organic tissue; vascular or- 
gasm, or atonic debility." — G. 

Cerebral weakness from brain fag 

Use from the 1st to the 30th. 

ACIDUM MURIATICUM. 
Muriatic or Hydrochloric A 

Acts especially od that pari of the ganglionic 
nervous system thai presides over the gasl ro-inl 
tinal canal and the blood. 

Also, affects the celrebro-spinal axis ; but I tliink 
this La a secondary affection, from the great irrita- 
tion of the ganglionic cent i 

Affects particularly the mouth and anus; also, 
the genito-urinarv organs and skin. 

(i rand (luirattrristica. 

"Cannot bear the slightest touch upon the 
anus, which often itches violently, and is not 
relieved by scratching/' — G. 

"Exceeding tenderness of the anus; she 
cannot bear the least touch, not even of the 
sheet." — G. 

"Largely-protruding piles; bluish, and ex- 
tremely sensitive and painful. v — G. 

" Varices of the anus, which are exceedingly 
sore to the touch : much prostration." — G. 

"If the anus be very sensitive, either with 



ACIDUM MURIATICUM. 447 

or without hemorrhoids, Muriatic acid is sure 
to be the remedy." — G. 

" Diarrhoea, with intolerable itching of the 
anus, which is sometimes so sore that it can- 
not be touched. " 

" Watery diarrhoea ; stools and urine invol- 
untary." — G. 

Adapted to low fevers, where there is pu- 
trescence of the fluids. 

" Febris stupida ; constant sliding down in 
bed; groaning and moaning in sleep; mutter- 
ing and unconsciousness whilst awake/' — 
Raue. 

" Excessive dryness of the mouth and 
tongue ; it is heavy and paralyzed ; the pa- 
tient cannot move it at all, even if conscious." 
— Rale. 

" Pulse intermits every third beat." — Raue. 

" Scarlatina maligna; intense redness rap- 
idly breaking out all over the body, with coma; 
great anxiety and restlessness ; dark, bluish- 
red fauces." — Raue. 

Aphthae, and ulceration of the mouth and 
throat, with extremely foul breath.^ 

" Discharge of thin pus from the nose. ,, — 
Raue. 

Inflamed, swollen, and tender salivary glan 1 1 s ; 
ulcers in the mouth and throat slough and ex- 
tend together. 



448 ACIDUM HYDROCYAXICUM. 

Sighing, great debility, and sliding down in 
bed. 

u It is one of the few medicine.- which have 
a specific action on the tongue; it has been 
used successfully for many affections of that 
organ." — HuGHES. 

" Leucorrhoea, with exceeding & sa of 
the anus, either from piles or from fissures." 

"Uterine ulceration; putrid discharge y<tv 
sensitive, and attended with a great sense of 
weakness. v — G. 

"Stitches and pain In the vagina." — (1. 

"Very sad and silent during the menses, as 
if she would die. v — G. 

" Mensefl too early and too profuse, witli 
tremely sore hemorrhoids, which sometimes 
itch terribly.'— ( i. 
' Profuse urination, with small stool. 

Paralytic inability to void urine in low 
fevers. 

Use particularly the 30th and 200th, and 
sometimes the 3d. 

ACIDUM HYDROCYANICUM. 

Prussic Acid* 

"Professor Jones, of Nashville, has made some 
very interesting experiments with this poison apon 
alligators, with a view of ascertaining its modus 
operandi. 



ACIDUM HYDROCYANICUM. 449 

" From these experiments he concludes that Prus- 
sic acid acts primarily, directly, and chiefly upon 

the medulla oblongata, and spinal cord ; and thai 
its ability to produce sudden death is dependent 
upon its action upon the medulla oblongata. 

"Derangements in the relations of the medulla 
oblongata and spinal cord to the muscular system 
generally, and especially to the respiratory, are the 
first phenomena manifested in the action of Prussic 
acid. 

" Prussic acid acts also upon the blood, the mus- 
cular fibres, and sympathetic nervous system ; but 
the most marked phenomena, those disturbances 
of the respiration which induce death, are due to 
theniirect action of the poison upon the medulla 
oblongata," — Homoeopathic Independent. 

It also affects the heart in a special manner. 
The sentient nervous system of the abdominal 
viscera is very prominently affected ; it is a very 
close analogue of Xux vomica ; and many diseases 
which Xux vomica fails to cure, will be cured by 
Prussic acid, especially the neuroses of the bowels. 

Grand Characteristics. 

" Spasms, when the muscles of thfc back, 
face, and jaws, are principally affected, and the 
body assumes a bluish tint." — G. 

Cholera, with marble coldness of the whole 
body; pulselessness, and rapid progress of the 
disease towards asphyxia. 

Involuntary stools. 

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450 ACIDUM CARBOLICUM. 

Ci Cessation of diarrhoea and vomiting; hic- 
cough ; paralysis of the oesophagus, the fluid 
runs gurgling down the oesophagus/ 1 — G. 

Long, fainting spells, with trismus and tet- 
anus. 

Scarlatina; eruption dark-colored, and soon 
becomes livid; rapid feeble pulse; sinking at 

the stomach from prostration of the solar 
plexus. 

Heart disease; violent palpitation, with 

fainting spells. 

Use the 30th and 200th. 

ACIDUM CARBOLICUM. 
Carbolic .l 

The oi L 'I tiestM - affected by Carbolic Acid 

arc not known; it probably resembles the action 
of Kreosote very closely, with which it is wry 

nearly identical, chemically. 

Its great sphere ^\' useful] far ha- been, as 

a local remedy tor tic OIL 

Three preparations of Carbolic Acid arc used by 
surgeons : 

1. Carbolic Acid and boiled linseed, or other 
fixed oil, in the proportion of one to fi\ 

2. Carbolic Acid and water, in proportion of one 
to thirty. 

3. Carbolic Oil and whitening, in the proportional 
requisite for the consistence of soft putty. 

Also the dentists prepare a collodium of Car- 



ACIDUM CARBOLICUM. 451 

4 

bolic Acid, and use it locally in odontalgia, with 
remarkable curative effect. 

The results of the employment of these prepara- 
tions in surgery are almost to be called wonderful, 
and promise to remove and prevent an immense 
amount of human suffering. 

In all amputations, the cut surfaces are bathed 
with the Carbolic Acid lotion, the edges coaptated, 
and a paste of the Carbolic Acid applied, so as to 
prevent the air from coming in contact with the 
wound, and it all unites by the first intention. 

In all forms of abscess, after opening it, and 
evacuating all the pus, wash with the lotion, and 
then seal it up with the carbolic paste. The anti- 
septic properties of the acid* destroy and exclude 
those "atmospheric germs, or infusori, which keep 
up putrefaction." 

In putrefactive sloughing wounds, the lotion de- 
stroys all fetor, facilitates the separation of the 
slough, and causes healthy granulations to spring 
up. " It has the power of arresting fermentation 
produced by organized matter/' 

Dr. Lemar says, " that the vapor of Carbolic 
Acid proves fatal to flies, ants and their eggs, lice, 
bugs, ticks, centipedes, acari, butterflies, earwigs, 
wood-lice, cockchafers, and other insects of their 
size, and their bodies resist putrefaction for a long 
time." 

"For the extermination of mosquitoes and flies, 
a small piece of cloth, saturated with the acid, and 
hung up in the room." 

Fish or infusori can be killed by dropping a 



452 



ACIDUM CARBOLICUM. 



little of the acid into the water which contains 
them. 

a "Worms and larva in wood are killed by this 
acid; and all insects are also kept away from dead 
animals and vegetables, as grain in ban 

Animal parasites on the human body, such as 
lice, acari, fleas, chigo, harvest bugs, fcc., may 
destroyed by the lotion. 

In pin-worms in children and adults, use inj< 

tions of the lotion. 

Many cases of itch have been cured by tin- Car- 
liolie Acid lotion. 

Its powerful antiseptic pro] make it a 

valued agent for disinfection. 

It d<>r- noi act <>* putrid gases, but kills the 
Living germs developed in the process ot' putrefac- 
tion, striking directly at tl, .and not the 
effect. 



Its medical uses have been but tew. It is 

reported to have cured two malignant eases of 1 
glanders. 

Dr. Hornby, of Poughkeepsie, has cured ca- 
tarrhal croup with it. 

Dr. J. P. Connely, of Des Moines, thinks it 
one of the best remedies for whooping-cough. 

Good in purulent conjunctivitis; used lo- 
cally (but must be much diluted) as an injec- 
tion in fetid leucorrhoea and ulceration of the 
uterus. 



ACIDUM FLUORICUM. 453 

ACIDTJM FLUORICUM. 

Fluoric Acid. 

This acid is the most caustic and highly corro- 
sive substance known. It readily dissolves silica 
and silicic acid. As a solvent of silex in the ani- 
mal economy, it is especially useful. Glass ffi ener- 
getically acted upon by this acid; its transparency 
is instantly destroyed, and heat is evolved. " Its 
vapor is more pungent than chlorine, or any of the 
irritating gases." The organs and tissues it espe- 
cially aftects, I am not fully able to make out. but 
believe its greatest therapeutic action is upon the 
teeth, bones, cuticle, hair, faucial and pharyngeal 
mucous membrane, thyroid gland, genito-urinary 
organs, venous system, and ganglionic nervous 
system. 

Grand Characteristics* 

Its main sphere of action is in diseases of 
the vegetative tissues, of a chronic suppura- 
tive character. In action it closely resembles 
i Silicea. 

Great loss of memory. 

Falling off of the hair, with congestion of 
\ blood to the head. 

Baldness. 

Rapid caries of the teeth. 

Ptyalism. 

Dental and lachrymal fistula?. 

" Pains in the bones, with numbness and 



I 



454 ACIDUM FLUOKICUM. 

powerlessness of the hands, and itching of the 

skin."— G. 

"Pains from below upwards." — P. f 
Excessive moisture of the hands and fe< 

Caries of the bones. 

Chronic inflammation of the pharynx and 
fauces. 

Hemorrhoids, with much congestion of Mood 
in the rectum. 

Much congestion of the sexual organs, 

"with menses too early and too profuse; thick 

and coagulated; an uncommon buoyancy of 

mind; she fears nothing, and is well satisfied 

with herself/ 1 — ( i. 

" Enlarged and indurated liver, from abuse 
of whiskey/' — Raue. 

Syphilitic erosions, mucous tubercles, exos- 
toses, and nightly bone-pains. 

^ Squamous eruptions on the bod}'." — 
Hughes. 

" Tubercles on the forehead and face, even 
when ulcerating." — K ait. 

" Caries in consequence of syphilis, or abuse 
of mercury, especially of the temporal hone." 
— Raue. 

Varicose veins. Typhus, with decubitus. 

"Better able to endure fatigue; heat an J 
cold."— F. 

Whitlow, externally, solution of one-eighth 



ACIDUM BENZOICUM — ACIDUM OXALICUM. 455 

of a grain to an ounce of water; the compress 
kept constantly moist; give the 30th or 200th 
internally. 

Bronchocele is said to be rapidly cured 
with it. 

ACIDUM BENZOICUM. 
Benzoic Acid. 

Acts upon the urinary organs, joints, fibrous 
tissue, and skin. 

Grand Characteristics. 

Especially adapted to rheumatic or gouty 
subjects. 

The urine is high-colored, with an exceed- 
ingly strong smell ; " dark-colored, and much 
heavier than normal." (See Nitric Acid.) 

Shifting rheumatoid pains in the joints. 

Concretions in the joints, from rheumatism 
or gout, with strong-smelling urine. 

Articular rheumatism, with strong-smelling 
urine. 

Symptoms and pains appear first on the 
left side ; then on the right. 

ACIDUM OXALICUM. 
Oxalic Acid. 
Acts especially on the spinal cord, and also upon 
the brain. u Its main sphere of action is on the 
nervous centres, which it paralyzes from below up- 
wards." " The loss of power in the lower exl remi- 
ttee — which is very characteristic — is accompanied 



456 ACIDUM OXALICIM. 

with numbness, and neuralgic pains in the back 
and legs. As the poison advances up the spinal 
cord, paroxysms of Bpasmodically suspended 
piration and palpitation of the heart manifest 
influence." — HuGB 

It also, acts upon the pneumogastric nerve, the 
mucous membranes, and thejoinl 

id nd Characteristic** 

" Pain in the bark is often relieved by Oxalic 
Acid, bettor than any other remedy/' — Peters. 
Excessive lassitude of the body. 

" Great lassitude and weakness of the limbs." 
" Spinal neuralgia, with acute pain in the 

back, extending down to the thighs; numb- 
ness, tingling, and pricking in the lower por- 
tion of the spine/' — Ill'oin >. 

Wk Numbness, approaching to palsy." — 
Hugh] 

" All the pains seem to occupy only a small 
spot, half an inch to an inch in length, viz.: 
in the Eustachian tube, right wrist, right hypo- 
chondrium, region of navel, knee, &c." — Neid- 

HARD. 

This acid has been used so little, that we 
know not its characteristics. It ought to be 
remedy of great value. 

"It has been found useful in severe gastric 
sufferings of pregnant women, especially with 
ptyalism." — F. 



INDEX. 



Acidum benzoicum, 455 
Acidum carbolicum, 450 
Acidum fluoricum, 453 
Acidum hydrocyanicum, 448 
Acidum muriatieum, 446 
Acidum nitricum, 437 
Acidum oxalicum, 455 
Acidum phosphoricum, 442 
Acidum sulphuricum, 435 
Aconitum napellus, 14 
iEsculus hip., 149 
Aethusa, 120 
Agaricus, 103 
Agnus castus, 355 
Ailanthus, 120 
Alcohol, 94 
Alumina, 213 
Aloes, 262 
Ammonium, 247 
Ambra grisea, 345 
Angustura, 149 
Antimonium c, 274 
Antimonium tart., 48 
Apis m., 302 
Apocynum c, 315 
Arnica, 58 
Argentum, 264 
Arsenicum, 254 



Artemisia, 364 
Arum triphyllum, 239 
Asafcetida, 341 
Asparagus, 317 
Aurum, 269 

B. 

Baptisia, 66 
Baryta carb., 267 
Belladonna, 73 
Bismuthum, 278 
Borax, 311 
Bromine, 245 
Bryonia, 29 



Cactus, 25 
Calcarea carb., 167 
Camphora, 106 
Cannabis ind., 112 
Cannabis sativa, 314 
Cantharides, 300 
Capsicum, 382 
Carbo Teg., 207 
Carboan., 212 
Castoreum, 355 
Caulophyllum, 433 



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458 



INDEX. 



CausticumJ 204 
Cedron, 380 
Chamomilla, 352 
Chelidonium, 69 
Chimaphila, 305 
China, 365 
Chlorine, 245 
Chloroform, 100 
Chanchalagua, 381 
Cicuta vir., 105 
Cinnamonum, 431 
Cimicifuga, 44 
Cilia, 359 

in., 191 
I ulus ind., 140 
Coffea, 113 

lib*, 307 
('Milium, 11") 

Oollinfoni*, 332 

Corallium r., 9 
Oolchioam, 
Ooloqynth, 
Cornus Solid*, 383 

Crocus, 4L , 7 
Crotalus, 2M 
Croton tig., 268 
Cubebs, 308 
Curare, 139 
Cucurbita pepo, 362 
Cuprum, 110 
Cyclamen, 425 
Cypripedium, 355 



Digitalis, 41 
Dulcamara, 223 
Dioscorea, 331 
Daphne mez., 337 



E. 

Electricity, 201 
Elaterium, 338 
Euphrasia, 319 
Eupatorium pcrf. , 
Eupatorium purp., 
Erechthites, 319 
Erigeron, 315 
Euphorbia, 



Filix mas, 361 
Perrnm, 282 



minum, 26 
101 

: ium, 433 
Qraphitot, 215 
Gtamml guttae, 338 
Gymnocladus, 106 



II. 



Hamamelis, 420 
Helleborus niger, 320 
Helonias, 288 
Hepar sulph , 182 
Hydrastis, 309 
Itydrophobinum, 296 
Hypophosphites, 288 
Hyoscyamus, 83 



INDEX. 



459 



Ignatia, 133 
Ipecacuanha, 271 
Iodine, 241 
Iris ver., 250 



Jalapa, 336 
Juglans cin., 218 



Kali bi., 196 
Kali carb., 194 
Kali chloricum, 310 
Kreosote, 414 
Kali hyd., 199 
Kali brom., 246 
Kousso, 362 



Lachesis, 289 
Lachnantes, 120 
Leptandria, 261 
Lobelia, 275 
Lycopodium, 173 



M. 

Manganese, 284 
Magnesia, 221 
Mephitis, 356 
Mezereum, 337 



Mercury, 329 
Mercurius jod., 235 
.Millefolium, 431 
Mitchell*, 319 
MoBchua, 351 



N. 

>'atrum m., 376 
Naja tripujians, 297 
Nux mos., 346 
Nux vom., 122 



O. 

Opium, 89 
Ostrya vir., 370 



Petroleum, 312 
Phosphorus, 185 
Phytolacca, 252 
Platina, 349 
Plumbum, 334 
Podophyllum, 248 
Poiyporus, 371 
Pterin, 227 
Ptelea, 384 
Pulsatilla, 397 



R. 

Rhoum, 339 
Robinia, 2 
Bhm tox., 
Rumex oritpm 



460 



INDEX. 



S. 

Sabina, 417 
Salix alba, 383 
Sambucus, 321 
Sanguinaria, 192 
Santonine, 360 
Sartaparilla, 192 
Scammonium, 
Scutellaria, 344 
Senecio, 430 
Senega, 66 

Sepia, 100 
Bepein, 269 
Silioea, 178 
Sianoum, 209 
Staphyaagria, 
Stillingia, 283 
Sticta, 924 
Strychnine, 122 
Stramoniam, 86 
Spongia, S 
Spigelia, 

Solanum nig., 119 
Sulphur, 166 
Sulphuric ether, 100 



T. 



Tabacum, 118 



Tarantula, 299 
Tanacetum, 432 
Tartar emetic, 48 
Terebinthina, 30G 
Teocrium, 3r»2 
Tberidion, 298 
Thlanpi, 429 
Thuja, 218 
Trillium, 421 



U. 

(Jraninm, 

iMilago, 898 
I'm 



Valeriana, 

Valerianate of zinc, 344 
Veratram alb., 
Veratrum viride, 23 



Z. 

Zinc, 285 
Zizia aurea, 109 
Zingiber, 325 



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